From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 13:59:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A1137B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e8CKxLB11963; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Daniel Frazier Cc: Dan Nelson , Jason W , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excess baggage in / directory? In-Reply-To: <39BE4689.ACDE4482@magpage.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Daniel Frazier wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > In the last episode (Sep 11), Jason W said: > > > I just installed a brand new 4.1-RELEASE on my hard drive. I went for the > > > overkill and partitioned my /var and / partitions with 500 Megs. After the > > > install, I do a df and heres what I get > > > > > > [root@welsh]# df -h > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/ad0s1a 484M 326M 120M 73% / > > > /dev/ad0s1f 4.7G 433M 3.9G 10% /usr > > > /dev/ad0s1e 484M 1.7M 444M 0% /var > > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > > [root@welsh]# > > > > give us the output of a "du -x /". My bets are on /tmp. > > > > I agree. some may argue with this, but you might want to link /tmp to /usr/tmp > to make sure /tmp wont ever fill up /. The only problem with this is that if you ever have to boot without mounting any filesystems instead of root, you won't have a /tmp directory so many things will fail (including most editors.) Yes, it's easy to create /tmp in those circumstances, but it's generally a bad habit to get into. (I've seen some SCO and Solaris boxes fail miserably once a trick like this has been performed. They have trouble moving from single-user to multi-user without /tmp.) -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message