Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:23:11 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55EFC0F5.4000601@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 09/08/15 16:12, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 15:00:45 -0453.75
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>>
>> I am prepping to bring 2 new FreeBSD 9.3R boxen online. I am trying
>> to figure out how large to make root & usr partitions to make most
>> effective use of storage. To that end, I did the following:
>>
>>
>> find / -xdev -maxdepth 3 -type f -exec ls -lSrF {} +
> It's easier to see the usage if you use:
>
> du -xhd1 /
>
> and then work down.
[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:38:34pm] 445 % du -xhd1 /
4.0k /.snap
4.0k /home
512B /dev
244k /libexec
10G /var
4.0k /mnt
6M /sbin
4.0k /tmp
8.6M /lib
600M /boot
5.7M /etc
0B /proc
5.2M /rescue
38M /root
1.2M /bin
4.0k /usr
14k /media
512B /net
512B /host
32k /.amd_mnt
312M /compat
11G /
[root@kabini1, /etc, 12:18:08am] 446 %
& I think we may have a winner :-) !!!! *Wow*, 10 GB (out of 11-ish) in
/var. I knew it could get porky, but no idea that bad (& consistent w/
other replies showing *very* small root dirs & astutely sized other
partitions). A bit more thinking required here :-) .... Thanks for *all*
replies thus far & continuing :-).
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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