Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:08:34 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation Message-ID: <19148.33986.629983.591360@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20091007094142.GA90993@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <874310.63278.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20091007094142.GA90993@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen writes: > > 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. Agreed. Other minor suggestions to the OP: check the contents of /root, and move anything large that can live elsewhere and create a symlink. And somethings can just be deleted: if root uses <preferred web browser> two or three times a year, then a large cache is probably superfluous. Look for any ".core" files, which can usually be deleted. It is my understanding that - providing /tmp is on a separate partition - / should receive very little traffic, and the size should stabilize quickly. Robert Huff
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