From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 16:08:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462AB16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Received: from avs4.arnes.si (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9811B43D58 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Received: from localhost (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) by avs4.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963E62C350B for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from avs4.arnes.si ([193.2.1.77]) by localhost (avs4.arnes.si [193.2.1.77]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79365-06 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from xmail.homelinux.net (cmb16-74.dial-up.arnes.si [194.249.51.74]) by avs4.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610932C3509 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.249] (master.workgroup [192.168.10.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by xmail.homelinux.net (8.13.5/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jBCG8cci009559 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sasa@stupar.homelinux.net) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:40 +0100 From: Sasa Stupar To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <17309.37575.337162.532084@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc> <17309.37575.337162.532084@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on mig29.workgroup X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arnes.si Subject: Re: Slices 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: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:08:42 -0000 --On 12. december 2005 10:09 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > >> > 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. > > Not just at install time. If you decide to install > applications using the ports system, some of them use /var for the > build process. I've had builds die because there was insufficient > free space on /var. (Mind you, I remember these being large/complex > applications - OpenOffice, Mozilla, Java - but even so.) In my > opinion, given modern disk capacities 50mb is way too small. > To register a data point: > > huff@> df -h /var > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1d 989M 169M 741M 19% /var > > > Robert Huff You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice named / which takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about space shortage. -- Sasa Stupar