Me again.. Just had a call from the RTFM daemon:
> 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?).
The manpage says:
...
The environment variables PKG_TMPDIR and TMPDIR, in that order, are taken
to name temporary directories where pkg_add will attempt to create its
staging area in. If these variables are not present or if the directo-
ries named lack sufficient space, then pkg_add will use the first of
/var/tmp, /tmp or /usr/tmp with sufficient space.
...
>
> > - 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 ;-)
Or do this (again from the man page):
...
-t template
Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging
area''. By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX,
but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where
space in your /var/tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave
some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a
unique ID.
You can get a performance boost by setting the staging area
template to reside on the same disk partition as target directo-
ries for package file installation; often this is /usr.
...
Enlightend
S.Mazerski
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