From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 18:39: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB001553E for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10023; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:33:09 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:33:05 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Barbara Scott Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions In-Reply-To: <19990721201359.18527.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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; or resize everything to one big / partition. Don't worry about /proc. It doesn't chew up any disk space; it's a pseudo-filesystem. Cheers. Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message