From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 08:06:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD581065670 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:06:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF728FC13 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id B46E116B844; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:06:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.84]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 192A416B838; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 03:06:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:57:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:57:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Chris Stankevitz In-Reply-To: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20091007025720.A81275@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:06:12 -0000 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