From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 05:59:42 2003 Return-Path: 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 AD18016A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ctb-mesg1.saix.net (ctb-mesg1.saix.net [196.25.240.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9C243FDD for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roland@thegreentree.org) Received: from thegreentree.org (unknown [196.25.134.130]) by ctb-mesg1.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EEEF81E0 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:59:36 +0200 (SAST) Received: from Spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MO00008B; 25 Nov 03 16:00:00 +0200 Received: from spooler by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32); 25 Nov 03 15:59:43 +0200 Received: from roland (127.0.0.1) by thegreentree.org (Mercury/32 v3.32) ID MG00008A; 25 Nov 03 15:59:39 +0200 From: "Roland Giesler" To: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:59:39 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <3FC35004.9040700@ucrc.ORG> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Resizing disk labels X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:59:42 -0000 > 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.