Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:26:56 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55EFC1D6.4090209@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55EF4E22.8070200@radel.com> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <44lhcgbr4f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <55EF468A.4090902@hiwaay.net> <55EF4E22.8070200@radel.com>
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On 09/08/15 16:14, Jon Radel wrote:
> On 9/8/15 4:33 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> Not really, & you may be right, much ado about nothing, but I like
>> things as efficient as possible.
> There are many ways to measure efficiency--and most people don't work
> as cheap as you apparently do.... Of course, if these are a cross
> between hobby servers and training platform, more power to you.
> Breaking everything can be remarkably educational if one then takes
> the time to unbreak it all. :-)
>
>> I may be reading wrong, but I think I see ~5.3 MiB *per file*, or a
>> few hundred MiB total in /rescue. There are also those pkg.sql
>> backups, @ about 10 MiB apiece. The reason I ask is I have about 12
>> GiB used total in my root dir & I'm trying to figure out where it is
>> all going. It may be nothing, I wanted to see if I could get down to
>> an 8 GiB root partition, but that may be unrealistic.
>>
> I'd say you're ending up with extra cruft somewhere. I just checked 2
> production machines (10.1, I don't have anything 9ish around anymore)
> and the root partitions use 1.1G and 3G. I made absolutely *no*
> attempt to trim down the size of the root partition, or anything else,
> as between ZFS, 1 TB drives being about the smallest worth buying, and
> my relatively modest data requirements, I find more amusing things to
> do with my time.
I am indeed using 1 TB drives (2X in 1 case, 8X in the other), but
(apparently) confused myself w/ my choice of ways to assess storage used
:-/ ....
>
> $ du -sh /rescue
> 4.9M /rescue
>
> does that really show several hundred M on your system?
>
> --Jon Radel
> jon@radel.com
Well ... no, but my original command seemed to. I think I now stand
corrected, & thanks (sincerely) for that.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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