From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 19:50:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B0716A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:50:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl (smtp19.wxs.nl [195.121.6.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13F143D4C for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:50:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from [10.0.0.153] (ip3e833f72.speed.planet.nl [62.131.63.114]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I8O0065VF3UT7@smtp19.wxs.nl> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:50:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:50:20 +0100 From: Kiffin Gish In-reply-to: <41BC81CF.1000201@nbritton.org> To: Nikolas Britton Message-id: <41BDF27C.6010807@planet.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20041212) References: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> <41BC81CF.1000201@nbritton.org> cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kiffin.gish@planet.nl List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:50:20 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > Kiffin Gish wrote: > >> I recently decided to dump windows and take a much deserved breather >> with >> FreeBSD. So I installed 5.3 and was in for a real treat! >> >> However, I created a /-directory with 4G and installed the complete >> ports >> stuff from the CD. Now my root directory is almost filled up (after I >> installed all the Gnome Desktop stuff). >> >> I always do a make clean. Is there an easier way to only keep the ports >> stuff that is 'really' required? >> >> I noticed that there are tons of tarballs etc. in the >> /usr/ports/distfiles >> directory. Is it safe to delete all of these? >> >> Are there any other suggestions to keep my root directory from >> filling up? >> >> >> > What do you mean / is filling up? the default during install is to make > 5 partitions /, Swap, /tmp, /var, and /usr. > > See mine for example: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 739M 64M 616M 9% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1e 739M 15M 665M 2% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 69G 25G 38G 40% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 739M 59M 621M 9% /var > /dev/ad1s1 28G 24G 3.8G 86% /mnt > linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc > > The most you should need for / is 128MB (I think that is default during > install) > > > please sent the output of these commands "df -h", "more /etc/fstab", and > "disklabel ad0s1" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > bash-2.05b$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s4a 3.9G 2.5G 1.1G 70% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s4d 7.4G 5.9M 6.8G 0% /home This was the recommended setup according to the book The Complete FreeBSD, but now I realize this is probably not the best choice. bash-2.05b$ more /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s4b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s4a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s4d /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 su-2.05b# disklabel ad0s1 disklabel: /dev/ad0s1: no valid label found