From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 29 6:46:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ophiuchus.kazrak.com (ophiuchus.kazrak.com [204.152.186.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C1637B420 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 06:46:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by ophiuchus.kazrak.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C85A735A8; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 06:46:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 06:46:42 -0800 From: Brad Jones To: Julio Merino Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of / partition? Message-ID: <20011229064642.A29654@ophiuchus.kazrak.com> References: <009501c18ff7$ef17c110$7500a8c0@goliath> <20011229103404.GA322@klamath.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011229103404.GA322@klamath.local>; from juli@merino.net on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:34:04AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:34:04AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:32:36PM -0000, David Reid wrote: > > Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big should > > I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another build. > > > > bash-2.04$ df -k > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s2a 49583 44564 1053 98% / > > /dev/ad0s2f 2646093 1830324 604082 75% /usr > > /dev/ad0s2e 19815 8212 10018 45% /var > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > I allocate 70Mb for / on a 20gb disk and never ran out of space. You may > have old /modules and/or kernels laying around, as well as files in > /root. Also check your /tmp (which I mount on its own partition, > or with mfs!). One issue that I've found is that you need / a little larger with softupdates on it. I tried a make installworld on a 60MB / that had about 15MB of accumulated junk (mostly old kernels from when this machine switched from SMP to UP), and ran out of space partway through /sbin; the files being replaced by the install hadn't been reaped yet, so the partition was out of space even though it had several megabytes of files that had been 'deleted'. (Nuking the junk fixed the problem.) BJ -- Brad Jones -- brad@kazrak.com "The line between good and evil, hope and despair, does not divide the world between 'us' and 'them'. It runs down the middle of each one of us." -- Robert Fulghum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message