freebsd-chat Digest, Vol 320, Issue 1

[Patsy]

how much of the space in "/" is taken up by the "/home"
directory? (the "du" command should be able to help with
this). It's quite common to create a seperate /home partition
to avoid ordinary users being able to fill up the "/"
partition.

Patsy

On 23 September 2009 at 15:55 Sisantha Godawela-Ohle
<ekerberos at web.de> wrote:

> Hello FreeBSD Gurus,
> 
> i am using FreeBSD for a quite few years and now getting
> problems with installation of applications as the "/"
> partition gets FULL!
> Installations are like in this manner:-
> " /  (5GB)
> swap (4GB)
> /var  (moer than 20GB)
> /tmp ( 1GB)
> /usr" (moer than 20GB)
>  Now mz qestion is, why is it the "/ " Partion gets always
>filled with all stuff although there is plenty of space in
>"/usr"
>  partion as well as "/var" ?
> 
> And how get rid of this menace and amed it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sisantha
> 
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:40:39 +0200
> > From: Nick Hibma <nick at van-laarhoven.org>
> > Subject: Re: tmux(1) in base
> > To: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des at des.no>, Alfred Perlstein
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> > > * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des at des.no> [090922 14:47]
> > > wrote:
> > >> Nick Hibma <nick at van-laarhoven.org> writes:
> > >>> Our package system is a tremendous asset, and
> > >>> wholeheartedly agree
> > >>> with Doug on this. So my vote is now a -1. Not that
> > >>> anyone cares.
> > >>
> > >> Having seen how it turned out, I'd like to vote
> > >> -50,000,000 on this
> > >> whole discussion...
> > >
> > > Surely we're not done until someone suggests replacing
> > > /bin/sh
> > > with bash, amirite?
> > 
> > In loader?! Yeah! Great idea. No need to load the base
> > system which  
> > would save enormous amounts of bootup time. Everything
> > that is needed  
> > could be loaded as a lib!
> > 
> > And he scuttled off to create SillyFly BSD...
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > P.S.: I have never looked at DragonFly BSD, so I have no
> > idea  
> > whatsoever what it is or does, apart from the fact that I
> > *think* that  
> > it is a BSD like OS ... It runs on a 
> > 
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