From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 18:46: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B9814F35 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA24645; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:15:57 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA21523; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:15:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:15:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Barbara Scott , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Partition sizes (was: Questions) Message-ID: <19990722111555.L84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990721201359.18527.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 01:33:05PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 13:33:05 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Barbara Scott wrote: > >> I had set up the partition map for the UNIX slices as 40 MB for >> /, 180 MB for swap and 500 for /usr. I had requested the GNOME desktop >> environment during the initial installation, along with the DES security >> package. > > Your / partition size is way, *WAY* too small, since it has to hold > /tmp as well as /var information on it. Your partition size for / is fine. You don't want /tmp or /var/tmp on it, you should make symlinks into /usr for them. > You basically haven't got enough space to hold temporary files to do > anything big. You could possible add a /var and/or /tmp partition > on; You definitely don't want to do this. > or resize everything to one big / partition. That's an option. What was the original question? I don't normally read messages with a subject line like "Questions". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message