Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:59:39 +0200 From: "Roland Giesler" <roland@thegreentree.org> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Resizing disk labels Message-ID: <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDMEFICIAA.roland@thegreentree.org> In-Reply-To: <3FC35004.9040700@ucrc.ORG>
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> Roland Giesler wrote: > > I have installed FreeBSD in a server with the default setting > in the label > > editor. I hope my terminology is correct, since I'm refering > to /etc /usr > > etc. Now I've installed a squid, KDE, DHCP, Java (not complete yet!), > > Apache and some other stuff. While installing Qmail, I ran out of disk > > space on /etc. but /usr still has 17GB free. > > Your disk-layout seems to very unlucky (hard to avoid the term > 'braindead' here). Better install from scratch. ;-) Well I hope my brain grows, I only started on FreeBSD about 1 month ago. I did the default installation, letting sysinstall choose the defaults... > You should have a slice for /, one for /usr, one for /var, one for /home > at least. If you intend to run the machine as a production server, > /var/log and /var/qmail and /tmp beeing extra slices is also a good idea. > As a starting point, give 256M for /, I've got that.. > three times the physical memory as > swap, 3G or 4G for /usr (depends on how many applications you want to > install), I've got 17GB > for /var (without mailspool, squidcache and http-contents), > and 512M for /tmp (move the contents of /var/tmp to /tmp and make > /var/tmp a link to /tmp after install). I'll do that right away > About the size of the remaining filesystems you have to decide yourself, > depending how the machine is used and by how many users, if you have a > news spool, if you use imap or pop, how big your squid cache is, how > much space users need in /home etcpp. - I can't tell you that. > > Thanks > > > > Roland Giesler > > Hope that helped, > > FLiszt After carefully looking at the contents of the subdirectories, I found that I had stored all my downloaded packages under /root/downloads, which took almost 100Meg. I moved that to /usr and my problem is solved for the time being.
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