To answer my own questions... I moved /var to a larger partition (see http://www.freebsddiary.org/file-system-full.php for a HOW-TO)
> Questions: > - I presume pkg_add puts temporary files in /var. Is this normal / > sensible? pkg_add uses /var/tmp. (any reason why not /tmp?). > Or does xemacs suffer from exceptional bloat when being added? xemacs is a whacking big package, even if you don't include the LISP kitchen sink extensions ;-) > Can I expect this kind of thing from other packages? Presumably. During the installation /var went from about 6MB to a maximum of 97MB, ever so slightly larger than the original partition. > - what would be a reasonable ball park figure for /var? On a desktop system a good couple of hundred MB? Even then it might be prudent to symlink /var/tmp to a larger partion when installing bloatware ;-) > - The installation failure has left a lot of "orphaned" files littering my > file system. Assuming I carry out the installation successfully a second > time, these will be overwritten, and could be removed if neccessary with > pkg_delete? I presume this would be the case. Wiser. S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
