Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 09:15:54 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@deimos.senate.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /tmp and Disk Space Message-ID: <33BF381A.C2A@barcode.co.il> References: <199707041547.LAA10293@deimos.senate.org>
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Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > I created the following setup when I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2: > > 32M / > 30M /var > 390M /home > 515M /usr > 63M /swap > > The 32M / was recommended by the setup itself. However, now I have almost no > space on / because of the /compat crap. Here is the output of a df: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 31775 28671 562 98% / > /dev/wd0s1f 386655 9901 345822 3% /home > /dev/wd1s1e 511583 381576 89081 81% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 29727 2124 25225 8% /var > (THAT is a moused bug, it was not double spaced!) > > Anyhow, if I make a symbolic link /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that OK? Also, can I > just rm -rf parts of the /usr/src tree I don't need? I haven't installed any- > thing and I'm already 81% (lie, i installed some packages). Having /tmp on the root filesystem is a Bad Thing(tm) anyhow (even if space is not a consideration). However, /tmp and /var/tmp are better kept separate. The better solution would be one of the following: 1. Use MFS for /tmp (assuming you have no swap space problems). 2. Make /tmp a link into the /usr filesystem. You may also want to clean up your root filesystem by: 1. Removing old kernels (i.e. kernel.old and kernel.prev if you've ever upgraded your system). 2. Making sure ~root/ doesn't have any left-overs in it (for example, if you've ever fired up Netscape as root you're likely to have about 5MB of Netscape cache on your root filesystem...). 3. Removing core dumps that may end up in the root directory by many daemonds/utilities (if they ever core-dump). As for the sources, you can remove anything you want. You just won't be able to make world then... Nadav
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