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Hello,
I'm not sure what's next: hedgehogs falling from the skies, perhaps? Mostly, I know I'm flailing around in the newbie waters, an otherwise straightforward 5.2.1 install (single user, desktop) gone horribly, horribly wrong. The story so far...
And what have you against hedgehogs? Or is it just that they might hurt if they hit you?
I got through most of the sysinstall program without too many surprises. It's a new machine, 40G HD. Loosely following Mr. Lehey's configuration suggestions in Complete FreeBSD, / got 4G, swap 2G, and /home the rest.
[snip rest of sad story]
We love Mr. Lehey, of course, although my last attempt to get one of his books on Ebay went awry. However, I've read vinum(8) once, I think --- and found his website pretty interesting. ;-)
That said, I wouldn't partition a drive in this way. Here's a report on the disks on my workstation:
$df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 989M 149M 761M 16% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 34G 17G 14G 56% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 989M 410M 500M 45% /var /dev/ad1s1d 180G 14G 152G 8% /backup //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHAREDDOCS 19G 15G 3.8G 80% /house
Even allowing that the users in (/usr)/home on my system are using approximately 13GB, there's still 4GB in /usr, and another half GB in the root and /var filesystems, which in my case are seperate partitions.
Most certainly in doing cvsup+buildworld+buildkernel and friends,
you're going to take up space with /usr/src and /usr/obj. By installing
the instant-workstation port, you're going to be filling up /usr/ports/distfiles
and /usr/local.
Fetch is probably holding "temporary" files open in either /tmp or /root, so it's not inconceivable that your / is up to its 4 GB maximum as /var, /tmp, and /usr are all in your root fs...
Greg Lehey's recommendations have, AFAIK (but I'm no expert) never been the same as the ones recommended by /stand/sysinstall (and therefore the project??) However, generally there's nothing wrong with his ideas, and certainly he would know better than a peon like myself. BUT---IIRC, sometime in the last few months he was discussing this very issue on the lists, and mentioning that his thought on the subject had changed a bit (and perhaps he's changed his recommendations in a later edition?)
As for what you might do ... one workaround might be to move some things like /usr/src, /usr/ports and /usr/obj to your big filesystem:
$cd /usr $mv ports /home $ln -s /home/ports ports
I don't think this would cause any problems, and might be a way to manage until later. I guess you could just do it that way permanently.
There would be other options, too, of course...
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