Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:38:29 +0100 From: Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> To: gaf <moak@bredband.net>, Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /tmp full (newbie) Message-ID: <200402122238.33896.lauri@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040212210545.GA37966@users.munk.nu> References: <402BD360.6030808@bredband.net> <402BE5AB.9070301@bredband.net> <20040212210545.GA37966@users.munk.nu>
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--Boundary-02=_ZJ/KAFqEgWaDnMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 12 February 2004 22.05, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:44:27PM +0100, gaf wrote: > > Thank you for answering. I?d hoped not to reinstall but..... > > Partitioning is no problem, I?ve installed all versions from 4.8 to5.2 > > on my old computer just for training and trying. > > The problem with the current scheme is you have only 4Gb or so for > everything apart from /home - I don't have KDE / X installed, but I'm > fairly sure KDE on it's own would eat up 3-4Gb of space without too much > problem. If you reinstalled I'd say assign 20Gb to /usr if you're going > to use KDE. > This is way *way* overestimated. du -sh on my /usr/local shows 3.6Gb - tha= t's=20 with *two* installations of KDE (one in it's own prefix, still in /usr/loca= l=20 though), an unpacked set of sources for it, a jdk (hey, they're getting=20 pretty big these days), and a fairly full install of GNOME to boot. Plus= =20 various other random things. I would hate to see how much you'd have to=20 install to fill up 20 Gb of /usr, especially with a separate /home. On t= he=20 other hand, I can find a million ways to fill up as much /home as I'm given= ,=20 and I frequently do (fill it up, that is) With some judicious cleaning up of the cruft in /usr/ports/* (try portsclea= n,=20 part of the portupgrade suited), possibly nuking /usr/obj (although you'll= =20 want space back for that if you build world again) and some investigation=20 into maybe rolling over logs more often, and emptying out /tmp, there's no= =20 pressing reason the OP should need to repartiiton and reinstall, especially= =20 not for the sake of either KDE or GNOME. =20 I think for most people the installers auto defaults are not pretty workabl= e,=20 and that merging the suggested file systems is probably not advisable until= =20 you have more experience with the system and know what your pattern of usag= e=20 really is. Regards, =2D-=20 Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ --Boundary-02=_ZJ/KAFqEgWaDnMT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAK/JZ/gUyA7PWnacRAgGTAJ9lrmUPZpljS/pHrGRM+o/YK/su1ACfY9IP 9oGLPaGnYJXUNI5b37Ar16Q= =wApA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_ZJ/KAFqEgWaDnMT--
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