From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 13:30:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D54637B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.attbi.com (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EA843FEC for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20030619203028012004umjte>; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:30:28 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h5JKUS1V011236; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:30:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h5JKURHi011233; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:30:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: sweetleaf References: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Jun 2003 16:30:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: <44ptl9hkt8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much space for / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:30:30 -0000 sweetleaf writes: > When i installed freebsd-5.1, i stayed close to the recommended > partition sizes in the handbook. The faq. said 100 megabytes would > usually be enough for the / partition. I decided to install freebsd > with 300M for the / partition just to be on the safe side. The only > thing i have added since the original install is the linux > compatibility and some linux apps i needed such as netscape, opera > etc. Ok, now for some reason my / partition shows to be full and i > cant figure it out as like i said only a few apps have been > installed. It appears to me that after adding linux compatibility > the / partition went to full maybe because of the syslink "compat" > that was placed on my / partition by the freebsd-5.1 linux > compatibility port. No, /compat should be pointing off to your /usr partition, so it isn't using any significant space. The question is how to figure out where the space is going, because you do indeed have what *should* be plenty of space. Use "du -x" to figure out what's putting a lot of data on /. > Is there another way this should be done? Depends on how you use your box. For an average desktop, I'm not sure it's worth splitting up your partitions at all.