Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:49:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jan Krediet <J.Krediet@planet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion>
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On 2005-12-12 15:30, Jan Krediet <J.Krediet@planet.nl> wrote:
> At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX!
Welcome aboard :)
> For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I experienced that
> UNIX or related versions are more powerfull than OSses from Microsoft.
>
> So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it.
>
> After reading some pages of the handbook and the faq's I expericienced
> that making a slice for /var with the sice of 50mB ( i used 64mB) is
> not enough when during the installation i permitted th "Linux
> compatable".
At install time, some of the largest packages may overflow a /var
partition that is so small. It's probably wise to use a larger /var
partition for other reasons too, as by default it stores a lot of data
on systems that use the Ports (to install thirdparty software), it
keeps the system log files, and the mail queue.
> I got the error message (something like): unable to write to
> /mount/var... it is full.
> After resizing this /var to 512mB no problems at all.
>
> Now I'm testing what real size is needed, because after using the
> command "du -h" i see that used space is only 1 mB but perhaps with
> using the command "df" i get the real information about the used
> space of slice /var.
The df(1) utility should report the real size. For output that is
much easier for us humans to read, you can also use the -h option:
$ df -h /var
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1d 965M 28M 860M 3% /var
> What i like to know from you is: is here something going wrong or is
> the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no longer
> current in your FreeBSD vs.6?
It's possible that the documentation lags a bit behind. The section
of the Handbook that discusses disk space allocation is probably in
need of a few changes in this area.
> Another thing for your information: I'm almost 56 years and for me
> it is fun to learn.
Great to hear that. A lot of people give up on learning new things
much much earlier.
> Sorry for so much words (and not always correctly "english")
As I said already, "welcome" :)
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