freebsd-chat Digest, Vol 320, Issue 1

[KAYVEN RIESE]

/home is often on its own partition with its own diskspace allocated. 
Sometimes this is a link to /usr/home

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Patsy wrote:

> how much of the space in "/" is taken up by the "/home"
> directory? (the "du" command should be able to help with
> this). It's quite common to create a seperate /home partition
> to avoid ordinary users being able to fill up the "/"
> partition.
>
> Patsy
>
> On 23 September 2009 at 15:55 Sisantha Godawela-Ohle
> <ekerberos at web.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello FreeBSD Gurus,
>>
>> i am using FreeBSD for a quite few years and now getting
>> problems with installation of applications as the "/"
>> partition gets FULL!
>> Installations are like in this manner:-
>> " /  (5GB)
>> swap (4GB)
>> /var  (moer than 20GB)
>> /tmp ( 1GB)
>> /usr" (moer than 20GB)
>>   Now mz qestion is, why is it the "/ " Partion gets always
>> filled with all stuff although there is plenty of space in
>> "/usr"
>>   partion as well as "/var" ?
>>
>> And how get rid of this menace and amed it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sisantha
>>
>>
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>>>> * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des at des.no> [090922 14:47]
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Nick Hibma <nick at van-laarhoven.org> writes:
>>>>>> Our package system is a tremendous asset, and
>>>>>> wholeheartedly agree
>>>>>> with Doug on this. So my vote is now a -1. Not that
>>>>>> anyone cares.
>>>>>
>>>>> Having seen how it turned out, I'd like to vote
>>>>> -50,000,000 on this
>>>>> whole discussion...
>>>>
>>>> Surely we're not done until someone suggests replacing
>>>> /bin/sh
>>>> with bash, amirite?
>>>
>>> In loader?! Yeah! Great idea. No need to load the base
>>> system which 
>>> would save enormous amounts of bootup time. Everything
>>> that is needed 
>>> could be loaded as a lib!
>>>
>>> And he scuttled off to create SillyFly BSD...
>>>
>>> Nick
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>>> P.S.: I have never looked at DragonFly BSD, so I have no
>>> idea 
>>> whatsoever what it is or does, apart from the fact that I
>>> *think* that 
>>> it is a BSD like OS ... It runs on a
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