Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:41:42 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation Message-ID: <20091007094142.GA90993@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:28:00PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed FreeBSD. After I installed it, I was surprised to find only 26M of space on /. I used the auto-defaults during the Disklabel portion of the install. > > [cstankevitz@crs-m6300 ~]$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad4s1a 496M 430M 26M 94% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad4s1e 496M 14K 456M 0% /tmp > /dev/ad4s1f 113G 1.9G 102G 2% /usr > /dev/ad4s1d 2.9G 7.9M 2.6G 0% /var > > Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal? > The amount used (ie: 430M) looks about right. On my FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE/amd64, running a GENERIC kernel with a minimal /etc, my / filesystem is using 443M. However, this has a /boot/kernel and a /boot/kernel.old, both of which chews up 210M each. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?
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