Date: 22 Jul 2002 22:13:36 -0700 From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> To: Mark B <boxend@swbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /kernel write failed system full Message-ID: <1027401226.836.12.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020722233517.4a562c8b.boxend@swbell.net> References: <20020722233517.4a562c8b.boxend@swbell.net>
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On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:35, Mark B wrote:
> OK I know I did something wrong, but with little chance to correct the system, with error messages spewing out at a blinding rate, I hit the reset button then fsck the disks on boot, then edit the fstab to block off all but the basic fs needed to run. I see first error was a /kernel msg complaining about netscape-linux write error, over 400,000 of repetes, then everything got worse, is there a way to span the system over 2 ide disks, I have a 3gig drive and a 25 gig drive.
> I think my main problem was running netscape as root. 8-(
>
You must IMMEDIATELY cure yourself of the desire to run X11 as root for
any reason. You can achieve everything you need to do under a regular
user account by making good use of 'su' and the 'sudo' ports.
If you don't use X11 as root a 40MB / partition should be enough,
although in these days of large cheap IDE disks you may as well make it
100MB or so.
Here is my setup with two nfs mounts at the end:
daemon:steve {151} dh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s2a 74M 41M 27M 60% /
/dev/da0s2f 3.4G 2.6G 575M 82% /usr
/dev/da0s2e 98M 31M 60M 34% /var
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
/dev/da1s2e 443M 310M 98M 76% /usr/src
/dev/da1s2f 584M 379M 158M 71% /usr/obj
mail:/home 21G 8.5G 11G 44% /export/home
mail:/media 28G 24G 2.1G 92% /media
Yes, you can span the system over two disks. If you look close you'll
see I've done so. I can't tell you how to partition your disks because
you haven't said how the box is used. For a workstation with a 3gig
drive and a 25 gig drive (assuming the larger drive is newer) here's a
stab in the dark.
/ 200MB on 3GB
/usr 5GB on 25GB
swap 2x your RAM with half the swap on each disk
/var 300MB on 3GB (more if you run an mbox-type mailserver
/tmp 300MB on 3GB
/home the rest of the 25GB
That leaves alot of unused space on the 3GB, no strong opinion from me
on that.
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