Slices
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Mon Dec 12 07:08:56 PST 2005
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
> > After reading some pages of the handbook and the faq's I expericienced
> > that making a slice for /var with the sice of 50mB ( i used 64mB) is
> > not enough when during the installation i permitted th "Linux
> > compatable".
>
> At install time, some of the largest packages may overflow a /var
> partition that is so small.
Not just at install time. If you decide to install
applications using the ports system, some of them use /var for the
build process. I've had builds die because there was insufficient
free space on /var. (Mind you, I remember these being large/complex
applications - OpenOffice, Mozilla, Java - but even so.) In my
opinion, given modern disk capacities 50mb is way too small.
To register a data point:
huff@> df -h /var
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1d 989M 169M 741M 19% /var
Robert Huff
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