Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:36:47 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: "Charles A. Jeffrey" <allen@calmtech.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition Message-ID: <20010423183647.C4557@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010424090831.B86425@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:08:31AM %2B1200 References: <200104231511.f3NFBGI13615@foobar.calmtech.org> <20010424090831.B86425@itouchnz.itouch>
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:08:31AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Charles A. Jeffrey wrote: > > Hello,,, > > > > Can anyone help me with my root partition in FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE getting > > full? How does one stop that? Or re-init the area? What is filling it > > up? Already it is 65% full after 1 month uptime. > > Check you /tmp partition. You've probably put it in your / partition > instead of a separate one. He forgot to tell us the size of the partition... if it's something like 25M, it is easy to see why it has filled up. In any event, the fact that he's having this problem suggests he's new to UNIX and the multiple partition scheme... just about every new UNIX user winds up reinstalling after a month or so to correct foolish mistakes. Looks like it's your turn, Mr. Jeffrey; remember to make a larger root partition this time. Of course, if the partition layout is lousy (like everything on one or two partitions), you may be able to postpone the install by creating some extra partitions and moving stuff there. Here's a layout I use: SIZE MOUNT ~7G /usr/home ~10G /usr 250M / 200M /var Yes, many will call this wasteful use of space on /, but hey, disk space is cheap, and I'm not using it. I keep /tmp on /, although an MFS /tmp might be desirable in the near future. I'm actually using about 50M of / and 14M of /var... not exactly efficient, but hey, the layout never leaves me cursing over full partitions. :) -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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