Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:07:56 -0500 (EST) From: -=X=- <xlogan@novagate.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var drive space problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101091602520.76793-100000@bellona.asdf.com> In-Reply-To: <3A59D273.CB58B4D0@tsolab.org>
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Daniel Tso wrote: > Why would you want a 250M root ? I always keep root small, usually the > default 32M or 40M. It limits the possible damage and makes it much > easier to restore. One thing we found is that if you have a lot of users on a box and your /etc/master.passwd file is > 10 megs, you end up with a /etc/passwd file of ~9 megs, an /etc/pwd.db file of ~ 9 megs and an /etc/spwd.db file of ~ 10 megs. Added up, that is just about 40 megs. Then if you go to add another user in and you do a pwd_mkdb, it makes copies of the password files in /etc/, and you end up filling up the root partition and pwd_mkdb dies out with an error. We eventually went from a 50 meg partition to a 256 meg partition for /. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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