On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:26:02 -0400 Lowell <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> articulated:
> Jerry <freebsd.u...@seibercom.net> writes:
>
> > I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had
> > FreeBSD-7.3/i386 installed. It appears the the size of "/" has
> > increased dramatically.
> >
> > $ df -H
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a 1.0G 527M 428M 55% /
> > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
> > /dev/ad0s1d 520M 18k 478M 0% /tmp
> > /dev/ad0s1e 236G 6.0G 212G 3% /usr
> > /dev/ad1s1d 238G 720M 218G 0% /var
> >
> > When I attempted to build World and a new kernel after first
> > installing 8.0, I received an error that "/" was at 106% and the
> > process stopped. I reinstalled 8.0 and increased the size to 1.0G
> > and now everything appears to be working correctly.
> >
> > In my old installation, the root directory only used a minuscule
> > amount of space. Why has it increased so dramatically in 8.0/amd64?
>
> New modules, mostly.
OK, in that case, the install utility should be updated to allocate a
larger share to the root directory. As I stated, I ran out of room
while doing an initial World/Kernel build. Perhaps a mention in the
documentation would also be beneficial.
Just my 2ยข.
--
Jerry
freebsd.u...@seibercom.net
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