Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:38:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root partition Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206241431530.15866-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894911@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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Hi, Henning - On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: > I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine / and > /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to this > partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just create > a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here? Check where '/tmp' and '/var/spool' (sorry if that's a linuxism - I'm writing from a RH box.) are mounted. You can generate big files in these, so you may want to soft-link them to a partition (slice) with generous free space. In particular, when the partition holding '/tmp' fills up you can lose some important functions: 'xdm' and even 'login'. I would keep '/' modest in size and put the 'dump' elsewhere, but that's just my taste. That may give you some more ideas, one of which might actually solve your problem. Cheers. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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