Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:57:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation Message-ID: <20091007025720.A81275@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> In-Reply-To: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed FreeBSD. After I installed it, I was surprised to find > only 26M of space on /. I used the auto-defaults during the Disklabel > portion of the install. > > [cstankevitz@crs-m6300 ~]$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 496M 430M 26M 94% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1e 496M 14K 456M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad4s1f 113G 1.9G 102G 2% /usr > /dev/ad4s1d 2.9G 7.9M 2.6G 0% /var > > Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal? Goodness! What version did you install? > Q2: Will I be able to install GNOME, Firefox, download 30 MB of files, and > place them on my GNOME dekstop? (I believe the desktop is located at > /home/cstankevitz/.desktop aka on the root partition where there is only > 26M of free space) The default installation used to make /home a symbolic link to /usr/home. > Q3: Which changes, if any, should I make to my system? Move /home to /usr/home and create a symbolic link /home -> /usr/home That should give you some breathing room in / unless you have the bad habit of running as root and crud accumulates in /root or you keep several old kernels. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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