Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:43:54 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jason Hunt <jhunt@blaz.homeip.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / space.. Message-ID: <20010120184354.A2002@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010120153744.E53292@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:37:44PM -0800 References: <3A69CB97.3E8C85AA@blaz.homeip.net> <20010120153744.E53292@citusc17.usc.edu>
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Another thing that should be considered here is whether or not you will be enabling soft updates on this partition. Why? I used to have a / partition of about 100M total space, about 55% used, with soft updates enabled. If I tried to do a 'make installworld', it would die while installing /sbin/* everytime with a 'no space left on device' error. Softupdates does not return diskspace to the system immediately when a file is deleted, so it can be an important factor to take into account on small filesystems. On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:37:44PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:32:07AM -0600, Jason Hunt wrote: > > > when implementing a server, I believe I used the default setting of > > 50 MB for the / partition, and allocated most to /var and /usr. Is > > this going to create a problem? > > Over time more and more things tend to get added to / (compare the > amount of stuff on the root FS now with the 2.2 days). I'd suggest > making it say 100M and leaving yourself the room to expand. > > For example, here are my root filesystem sizes on two of my machines: > > /dev/da0s1a 99183 62148 29101 68% / > > /dev/ad0s2a 99183 79174 12075 87% / > > These are somewhat bloated from containing a few other > non-FreeBSD-default things, but you get the idea. > > Yeah, this default should probably be changed in sysinstall.. > > Kris > > -- > NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, > finger kris@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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