Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:08:40 +0100 From: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <D41740A82291A1416A788C4F@[192.168.10.249]> In-Reply-To: <17309.37575.337162.532084@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <000601c5ff28$9fb71e00$46933c50@Medion> <20051212144948.GB2325@flame.pc> <17309.37575.337162.532084@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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--On 12. december 2005 10:09 -0500 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > 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 You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice named / which takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about space shortage. -- Sasa Stupar
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