Slices

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--On 12. december 2005 10:09 -0500 Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

>
> 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

You can also do the same as I did. I have just configured one slice named / 
which takes all the space on hdd and now I don't need to worry about space 
shortage.

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