Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:24:43 +0200 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: determining the space used in / partition Message-ID: <94136a2c0710020824w53831cd1lde7f813dd0731d7b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1071002235035.25264A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20071002060315.9EEC516A4DF@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1071002235035.25264A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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> > I dump to /mnt/usbck/backup. Since backup dir was not present, the > > script created it under / > > Naughty script. It should check against doing something like that, eg > [ ! -d $backupdir ] && echo "no $backupdir - not mounted?" && exit 1 > > You do have a very small root filesystem for the size of your disk, so > similar disasters may need some preventing. Something will want to use > more than 100M in /tmp sometime, so you may want to symlink /tmp to say > /usr/tmp if you haven't already. Yes, that's true. You see this was my second or third attempt to install FreeBSD which having been successful :) has survived up till today and does what I want. I am sure I will do many things in a different way in future than I did last time. For example, I would like to reserve a separate partition for /home and a separate one for mail so that I have as little trouble moving things around as possible. But - hey - I am on this list and learning quite a lot! And thanks for the /usr/tmp symlink tip! Zbigniew Szalbot
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