Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:26:56 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55EFC1D6.4090209@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55EF4E22.8070200@radel.com> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <44lhcgbr4f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <55EF468A.4090902@hiwaay.net> <55EF4E22.8070200@radel.com>
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On 09/08/15 16:14, Jon Radel wrote: > On 9/8/15 4:33 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> Not really, & you may be right, much ado about nothing, but I like >> things as efficient as possible. > There are many ways to measure efficiency--and most people don't work > as cheap as you apparently do.... Of course, if these are a cross > between hobby servers and training platform, more power to you. > Breaking everything can be remarkably educational if one then takes > the time to unbreak it all. :-) > >> I may be reading wrong, but I think I see ~5.3 MiB *per file*, or a >> few hundred MiB total in /rescue. There are also those pkg.sql >> backups, @ about 10 MiB apiece. The reason I ask is I have about 12 >> GiB used total in my root dir & I'm trying to figure out where it is >> all going. It may be nothing, I wanted to see if I could get down to >> an 8 GiB root partition, but that may be unrealistic. >> > I'd say you're ending up with extra cruft somewhere. I just checked 2 > production machines (10.1, I don't have anything 9ish around anymore) > and the root partitions use 1.1G and 3G. I made absolutely *no* > attempt to trim down the size of the root partition, or anything else, > as between ZFS, 1 TB drives being about the smallest worth buying, and > my relatively modest data requirements, I find more amusing things to > do with my time. I am indeed using 1 TB drives (2X in 1 case, 8X in the other), but (apparently) confused myself w/ my choice of ways to assess storage used :-/ .... > > $ du -sh /rescue > 4.9M /rescue > > does that really show several hundred M on your system? > > --Jon Radel > jon@radel.com Well ... no, but my original command seemed to. I think I now stand corrected, & thanks (sincerely) for that. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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