Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 02:02:12 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: How big /var ? Or: too small for the xemacs package? Message-ID: <200207190202.12709.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200207182205.56717.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> References: <200207182205.56717.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
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To answer my own questions... I moved /var to a larger partition (see=20 http://www.freebsddiary.org/file-system-full.php for a HOW-TO) > Questions: > - I presume pkg_add puts temporary files in /var. Is this normal / > sensible?=20 pkg_add uses /var/tmp. (any reason why not /tmp?). > Or does xemacs suffer from exceptional bloat when being added? xemacs is a whacking big package, even if you don't include the LISP kitchen sink extensions ;-) > Can I expect this kind of thing from other packages? Presumably. During the installation /var went from about 6MB to a maximu= m of 97MB, ever so slightly larger than the original partition. > - what would be a reasonable ball park figure for /var? On a desktop system a good couple of hundred MB? Even then it might be prudent to symlink /var/tmp to a larger partion when installing bloatw= are ;-) > - The installation failure has left a lot of "orphaned" files littering= my > file system. Assuming I carry out the installation successfully a sec= ond > time, these will be overwritten, and could be removed if neccessary w= ith > pkg_delete? I presume this would be the case. Wiser. S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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