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Date:      Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:32:54 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap
Message-ID:  <42F4F446.90304@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050806143812.GA76296@over-yonder.net>
References:  <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <20050806112118.GA7708@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050806143812.GA76296@over-yonder.net>

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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> I doubt it presents much problem as regards the 'running out' issue
> anyway.  Things like fsck time, maybe.  But I've got a rather oldish
> and rather smallish /var, and:
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused  ifree %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/da1s1f    992M    266M    647M    29%    3802 250148    1%   /var

Your "rather oldish and rather smallish" /var is four times the default
size used in sysinstall (256MB is used for /, /tmp, and /var if you have
a large enough drive).  This default results in having ~32000 inodes.

I wonder if it's time to increase the default size of /var again.

Colin Percival



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