Disk Usage
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Apr 23 15:26:05 UTC 2010
Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> writes:
> I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had
> FreeBSD-7.3/i386 installed. It appears the the size of "/" has
> increased dramatically.
>
> $ df -H
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 1.0G 527M 428M 55% /
> devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/ad0s1d 520M 18k 478M 0% /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1e 236G 6.0G 212G 3% /usr
> /dev/ad1s1d 238G 720M 218G 0% /var
>
> When I attempted to build World and a new kernel after first installing
> 8.0, I received an error that "/" was at 106% and the process stopped. I
> reinstalled 8.0 and increased the size to 1.0G and now everything
> appears to be working correctly.
>
> In my old installation, the root directory only used a minuscule amount
> of space. Why has it increased so dramatically in 8.0/amd64?
New modules, mostly.
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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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