Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:06:26 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <20150909150626.5c3b99e5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:07:30 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > *Agreed* on all counts, that's why I was trying to see what I could > shrink out of my current 9.3R install, since both new boxen will be 9.3R > as well. Keep later updating to v10 and v11 in mind. Kernels and modules tend to occupy more space, so when you had started with v4 and a root partition of 256 MB, this could lead to unpleasant results. :-) As I mentioned in my comments regarding multiple partitions: Disk space is cheap today. If you don't intend to use ZFS and rather stay with UFS, allocate 2 GB for / and put /var on a separate file system. Look at your current /var for what has the biggest occupation and conclude. Make /var sufficiently large not to run into trouble later on. Also note that there are things that you can manually clean out of /var when not needed anymore (possibly freebsd-update and pkg metadata). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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