From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 22:14:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1642B153C7 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 120IYr-0007Np-00; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:14:17 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:14:11 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: David Schwartz Cc: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com, FreeBSD Stable Subject: RE: SOFTUPDATES In-Reply-To: <000001bf4b79$69c8b330$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > Most people keep the amount of free space on / minimal. I did a default > FreeBSD install on a machine, and it did this: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 31743 19641 9563 67% / > /dev/da0s1f 3929331 982235 2632750 27% /usr > /dev/da0s1e 29751 2220 25151 8% /var And that is very bad. I don't see /tmp on a separate filesystem either. That makes it worse. When you run out of space on "/", bad things happen. I can't believe that anyone would recommend a "minimal" amount of space for root. You need enough space for root so that it never runs out. Also, don't forget about users. You'll need about 7.5MB of space per 15K users in master.passwd, plus another 7.5MB per 15K just to rebuild the *.db files properly. > DS Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message