/ almost out of space just after installation
Jonathan Chen
jonc at chen.org.nz
Wed Oct 7 09:41:44 UTC 2009
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:28:00PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD. After I installed it, I was surprised to find only 26M of space on /. I used the auto-defaults during the Disklabel portion of the install.
>
> [cstankevitz at crs-m6300 ~]$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad4s1a 496M 430M 26M 94% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/ad4s1e 496M 14K 456M 0% /tmp
> /dev/ad4s1f 113G 1.9G 102G 2% /usr
> /dev/ad4s1d 2.9G 7.9M 2.6G 0% /var
>
> Q1: Is 26M free space on / after installing FreeBSD normal?
>
The amount used (ie: 430M) looks about right. On my FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE/amd64,
running a GENERIC kernel with a minimal /etc, my / filesystem is using
443M. However, this has a /boot/kernel and a /boot/kernel.old, both of
which chews up 210M each.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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