Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:09:59 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <17309.37575.337162.532084@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc>
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Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > 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. Not just at install time. If you decide to install applications using the ports system, some of them use /var for the build process. I've had builds die because there was insufficient free space on /var. (Mind you, I remember these being large/complex applications - OpenOffice, Mozilla, Java - but even so.) In my opinion, given modern disk capacities 50mb is way too small. To register a data point: huff@> df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1d 989M 169M 741M 19% /var Robert Huff
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