Date: 19 Jun 2003 16:30:27 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much space for / Message-ID: <44ptl9hkt8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> References: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>
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sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> 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.
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