On 2005-12-12 15:30, Jan Krediet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At first: I'm a newbie when I am talking about FreeBSD or UNIX!
Welcome aboard :) > For long time i had the wish to install BSD because I experienced that > UNIX or related versions are more powerfull than OSses from Microsoft. > > So i decided a week ago, to download a FreeBSD vs.6 and to install it. > > 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. It's probably wise to use a larger /var partition for other reasons too, as by default it stores a lot of data on systems that use the Ports (to install thirdparty software), it keeps the system log files, and the mail queue. > I got the error message (something like): unable to write to > /mount/var... it is full. > After resizing this /var to 512mB no problems at all. > > Now I'm testing what real size is needed, because after using the > command "du -h" i see that used space is only 1 mB but perhaps with > using the command "df" i get the real information about the used > space of slice /var. The df(1) utility should report the real size. For output that is much easier for us humans to read, you can also use the -h option: $ df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1d 965M 28M 860M 3% /var > What i like to know from you is: is here something going wrong or is > the size, as written in the handbook (50mB) and the faq's, no longer > current in your FreeBSD vs.6? It's possible that the documentation lags a bit behind. The section of the Handbook that discusses disk space allocation is probably in need of a few changes in this area. > Another thing for your information: I'm almost 56 years and for me > it is fun to learn. Great to hear that. A lot of people give up on learning new things much much earlier. > Sorry for so much words (and not always correctly "english") As I said already, "welcome" :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"