how much space for /

[Till Plewe]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:12:29AM -0500, sweetleaf wrote:
> When i installed freebsd-5.1, i stayed close to the recommended partition sizes in the handbook. The faq. said 100 megabytes would usually be enough for the / partition. I decided to install freebsd with 300M for the / partition just to be on the safe side. The only thing i have added since the original install is the linux compatibility and some linux apps i needed such as netscape, opera etc. Ok, now for some reason my / partition shows to be full and i cant figure it out as like i said only a few apps have been installed. It appears to me that after adding linux compatibility the / partition went to full maybe because of the syslink "compat" that was placed on my / partition by the freebsd-5.1 linux compatibility port. 
> 
> 
> # df -h
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a   290M   269M  -1.7M   101%    /
> devfs         1.0K   1.0K     0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1f   965M   2.0K   888M     0%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1g   965M   2.0K   888M     0%    /private
> /dev/ad0s1e   484M  10.0K   445M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1h    33G   1.4G    29G     5%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d   145M   9.2M   124M     7%    /var
> 
> 
> # cd /
> # pwd
> /
> KroNiC# ls
> .cshrc          boot            dist            private         sys
> .profile        cdrom           entropy         proc            tmp
> COPYRIGHT       cdrom1          etc             root            usr
> XF86Config.new  compat          home            sbin            var
> bin             dev             mnt             stand
> 
> 
> Is there another way this should be done?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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Are you running netscape/opera as root?
If so check the size of the .netscape .opera directories in /root.
They can get quite big. 

If not, use something like 

du -d 2 | sort -n

in all directories which are living in your root partition to look for 
the guilty directories.

- Till