From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 14:50:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C6016A420 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBFF43D60 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-8) with SMTP id jBCEoemt018416; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:50:43 +0200 Received: by flame.pc (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BD40911458; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:49:48 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:49:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jan Krediet Message-ID: <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:50:49 -0000 On 2005-12-12 15:30, Jan Krediet wrote: > At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX! Welcome aboard :) > For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I experienced that > UNIX or related versions are more powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. > > So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it. > > After reading some pages of the handbook and the faq's I expericienced > that making a slice for /var with the sice of 50mB ( i used 64mB) is > not enough when during the installation i permitted th "Linux > compatable". At install time, some of the largest packages may overflow a /var partition that is so small. It's probably wise to use a larger /var partition for other reasons too, as by default it stores a lot of data on systems that use the Ports (to install thirdparty software), it keeps the system log files, and the mail queue. > I got the error message (something like): unable to write to > /mount/var... it is full. > After resizing this /var to 512mB no problems at all. > > Now I'm testing what real size is needed, because after using the > command "du -h" i see that used space is only 1 mB but perhaps with > using the command "df" i get the real information about the used > space of slice /var. The df(1) utility should report the real size. For output that is much easier for us humans to read, you can also use the -h option: $ df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1d 965M 28M 860M 3% /var > What i like to know from you is: is here something going wrong or is > the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no longer > current in your FreeBSD vs.6? It's possible that the documentation lags a bit behind. The section of the Handbook that discusses disk space allocation is probably in need of a few changes in this area. > Another thing for your information: I'm almost 56 years and for me > it is fun to learn. Great to hear that. A lot of people give up on learning new things much much earlier. > Sorry for so much words (and not always correctly "english") As I said already, "welcome" :)