From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 15:24:45 2007 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 14CD616A41A for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B7513C448 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so3060930wxd for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:24:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=kn1XS9mzRcIKUgckbqSUFDir6aXzJJaBOP5W6lvKVnc=; b=F0Dh9yatfqb1sAKcBeXho9jX8UUCo/AYsgHhwZh2WYkcRa5PMChnuBp2PiVYOisBd8NL+5CgPpxOYGpC1U/WoPsLaQZWVqkYQsSpXMt5+HNLZ0u/Ak0ZuNlxt/whO8EBu+U4/pa8pManhnZp8k+w0tQnnDGQE5+/RLajhAwXsXc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZRBkzbSTe9LRjtsHWW3AMR6jElKPMuh9rFi8bYgpiAMt6dGcFn8qsXgwJpcT/yuZGt87MS54aIWEmC5q4TDsnRVqkmJdQDEb7pj6YUQHDVwoVYNNsZ16lmBXoZ9nzvHQJfcEFW4NxN3Sh2m+fut6Z37hxEg3z2YR5rpuR+T1IO4= Received: by 10.70.113.16 with SMTP id l16mr12302509wxc.1191338683819; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.95.16 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:24:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <94136a2c0710020824w53831cd1lde7f813dd0731d7b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:24:43 +0200 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071002060315.9EEC516A4DF@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: determining the space used in / partition 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: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:24:45 -0000 > > I dump to /mnt/usbck/backup. Since backup dir was not present, the > > script created it under / > > Naughty script. It should check against doing something like that, eg > [ ! -d $backupdir ] && echo "no $backupdir - not mounted?" && exit 1 > > You do have a very small root filesystem for the size of your disk, so > similar disasters may need some preventing. Something will want to use > more than 100M in /tmp sometime, so you may want to symlink /tmp to say > /usr/tmp if you haven't already. Yes, that's true. You see this was my second or third attempt to install FreeBSD which having been successful :) has survived up till today and does what I want. I am sure I will do many things in a different way in future than I did last time. For example, I would like to reserve a separate partition for /home and a separate one for mail so that I have as little trouble moving things around as possible. But - hey - I am on this list and learning quite a lot! And thanks for the /usr/tmp symlink tip! Zbigniew Szalbot