From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 19:36:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF1837B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5DE43E3B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021024023623.HORV24829.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:36:23 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9O2cQUW048475; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9O2c47Z048468; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't find certain doc References: From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 23 Oct 2002 19:38:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > But, no matter what they try to tell you, 150 MB is awfully > > small for the root partition now days. If it's small now, it's been small for many years. It's not unreasonable to consider it small, but lots of people don't mind the little trouble it takes to keep it well under that size. That's mostly taken care of by pointing /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home elsewhere. I think the argument is that the less you use /, the less likely you are to mess it up so you can't boot even into single user mode. Another way to find out what's filling "/": du -xd 1 / ## Just dir trees on / device find / ! -type d -maxdepth 1 -ls ## Just non-dirs in / dir > Thanks, I'll keep that in mind tonight when I set up a new box > at home. :) You might want to ensure that /var and /tmp point to real directories even when only / is mounted by pointing them at directories on / that get hidden after you mount things. Different topic: I like to point /tmp to something under /var and then worry only about /var. (I keep my small "home" under /var too.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message