Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:56:43 +0100 From: Sebastien ROCHE <roche1@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> To: dan@tsolab.org Cc: Ken Menzel <kenm@icarz.com>, Joe Gleason <clash@fireduck.com>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, B <brentb@loa.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var drive space problem Message-ID: <3A59D52B.2F4277EC@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101071653420.18503-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> <002701c078f7$086b9f60$0b2d2d0a@fireduck.com> <014101c0797f$84682880$711663cf@icarz.com> <3A59D273.CB58B4D0@tsolab.org>
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--------------8AE054E49F4D8D37B2E6FBA9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, About this particular problem (size of /): My / partition is 32 Mb large. I had no problem until yesterday, when the make installkernel didn't work due to insufficient space. I think it's /modules which is bigger than it was (and the installation process makes a copy of it). Anyway it was difficult to have it work. I lost /stand and I put /lkm on /usr and I had to delete some binaries in /bin or /sbin that I don't use. Do you have an idea of what else I could put on /usr ? (not /bin /sbin /modules /boot /kernel /etc, hmmm there's not much more I think). Thanks for help, Sebastien Daniel Tso wrote: > > I Agree, with Joe, but I also want to add I think the root file > > systems is also too small. The same type of formula could work. As > > for me I'll continue to set my favorite values for modern drives: 250M > > root, 2*mem swap, 250M /var, the rest /usr. > > 20M is way too small for modern drives, but we can't hard code this > > as many people stll are using old hardware to do jobs (such as nat > > boxs and ipfw etc). > > Why would you want a 250M root ? I always keep root small, usually the > default 32M or 40M. It limits the possible damage and makes it much > easier to restore. > > /tmp does not belong in root, but has its own partition, which can be > 200M if you have it. > > The root partition should be as static as possible, IMHO. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message --------------8AE054E49F4D8D37B2E6FBA9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi all, <p>About this particular problem (size of /): <p>My / partition is 32 Mb large. I had no problem until yesterday, when the <b><i>make installkernel</i></b> didn't work due to insufficient space. <br>I think it's /modules which is bigger than it was (and the installation process makes a copy of it). Anyway it was difficult to have it work. I lost /stand and I put /lkm on /usr and I had to delete some binaries in /bin or /sbin that I don't use. <p>Do you have an idea of what else I could put on /usr ? (not /bin /sbin /modules /boot /kernel /etc, hmmm there's not much more I think). <p>Thanks for help, <p>Sebastien <br> <br> <p>Daniel Tso wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>> I Agree, with Joe, but I also want to add I think the root file <br>> systems is also too small. The same type of formula could work. As <br>> for me I'll continue to set my favorite values for modern drives: 250M <br>> root, 2*mem swap, 250M /var, the rest /usr. <br>> 20M is way too small for modern drives, but we can't hard code this <br>> as many people stll are using old hardware to do jobs (such as nat <br>> boxs and ipfw etc). <p>Why would you want a 250M root ? I always keep root small, usually the <br>default 32M or 40M. It limits the possible damage and makes it much <br>easier to restore. <p>/tmp does not belong in root, but has its own partition, which can be <br>200M if you have it. <p>The root partition should be as static as possible, IMHO. <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message</blockquote> </html> --------------8AE054E49F4D8D37B2E6FBA9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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