From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 14:39:54 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 78ACF1065692 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:39:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C038FC1B for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so3915876bwz.43 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:39:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=yFrQSooQgJ1uQnGr+UreDg5iFS+jcZsT2OLze120Yag=; b=WgLRN30BewIUQixOhk3oJgt7lyd30VjuRIl3iNf/7PgwhoGNbmgDncSTeBoTrduMSM zEAepwsQ2r7x4lA9r18Fex26N+nS8JyIReJL+SUXBwC1j8niQuJ1Lo7lybqxlMKVU2Ed rBSE6+td5gydMlMz5yXE/HBa9vE86bkV0DMYk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=R00KAYbsoFAAp3QQ75yWWbiHMSet6BrodVYt3f4sy1AReJWy83m0SrzqNlPWljc/4p q5lRmZr0JEpuJG3jvuD3FDH+/HVfOUufwR78YsZfI71oIfJOnGmscag5vbIYyQY38I5b d6ilHNp9cidQD+vMFpe759no2esfPREz/wlfg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.179.97 with SMTP id c33mr310906hbg.157.1254926392441; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:39:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <19148.33986.629983.591360@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20091007094142.GA90993@osiris.chen.org.nz> <19148.33986.629983.591360@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:39:52 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Robert Huff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chris Stankevitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan Chen 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 14:39:54 -0000 2009/10/7 Robert Huff > > Jonathan Chen writes: > > > 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? > > > > > > > The amount used (ie: 430M) looks about right. On my > > FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE/amd64, running a GENERIC kernel with a minimal > > /etc, my / filesystem is using 443M. However, this has a > > /boot/kernel and a /boot/kernel.old, both of which chews up 210M > > each. > > Agreed. > Other minor suggestions to the OP: check the contents of /root, > and move anything large that can live elsewhere and create a > symlink. And somethings can just be deleted: if root uses > two or three times a year, then a large > cache is probably superfluous. > Look for any ".core" files, which can usually be deleted. > > It is my understanding that - providing /tmp is on a separate > partition - / should receive very little traffic, and the size > should stabilize quickly. > > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > if only we had zfs root as standard and none of this would be an issue. 8)