how much space for /

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Thu Jun 19 19:09:17 PDT 2003


sweetleaf <sweetleaf at myrealbox.com> writes:

> 226990  ./root

Oof.

If you're going to run a lot of applications as root, you'll need to
make sure most of the data doesn't get stored on the root partition.
It's a lot better all around, though, to just run your everyday
applications as a lesser-privileged account with a home directory on
another filesystem.


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