linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (10/02/89)
Hi, Does anyone have problems with the size of their root partition in OSx4.4 ? I notice that /etc is appx. 2MB bigger than in 4.0 which will take our standard root stuff up to about 17MB. This doesn't leave much room for manouvre. Has anyone any comments on this ? Linda. -- Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. janet: linda@uk.ac.brunel.cc | :-) uucp:...ukc!cc.brunel!linda |
hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt) (10/04/89)
In article <875@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) writes: >Hi, >Does anyone have problems with the size of their root partition in >OSx4.4 ? >[...] >Has anyone any comments on this ? It runs VERY full. % df / Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/iop/pdisk00a 19102 16260 930 95% / We have to delete /etc/utmp every week or we run out of space on root. Root here runs between having 1Meg and 400K free. -- John H. Pochmara A career is great, UUCP: {sdsu,voder,trwind}!polyslo!hoyt But you can't run your Internet: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU fingers through its hair -Graffiti 4/13/83
karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (10/04/89)
linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk writes:
I notice that /etc is appx. 2MB bigger than in 4.0 which will take
our standard root stuff up to about 17MB. This doesn't leave much room
for manouvre.
Long ago, I began the (sometimes frowned-upon) habit of symlinking
/tmp into a "real" filesystem. /tmp is needed so seldom during
single-user operations that I simply abandoned that tendency.
I also avoid keeping anything else of substantial size there. My
nameserver zone stuff (close to 500Kbytes) looks like it's in
/etc/named.d, but that too is a symlink elsewhere. (I keep 4 Pyramids
running essentially identical nameserver configurations, and having
them all believe in a generic /etc/named.d is very useful to me.)
My vestigial hosts file contains nothing but OSU hosts, and I don't
use mkhosts - that step is commented out of /etc/rc.local.
I regularly clean out things like Emacs backup files, and the
/etc/.*wtmp files aren't given much slack, either: I copy /dev/null
to them periodically.
You'll find that /usr is something of a challenge, too. Symlinks to
the rescue again: /usr/.*man, /usr/PTF, /usr/sys, and /usr/crash are
all hiding on much larger filesystems with space to spare. And make
sure you annihilate the SysV accounting stuff that shows up every day
at 4am.
--Karltreed@fsg.UUCP (Timothy Reed) (10/04/89)
Right, it doesn't leave much room, but you don't really need that much room, since your /tmp should be on a separate partition, and if you value your root partition at all, there should be no other writing going on there in the a partition anyway. Pyramid's got so many partitions to play with (both real and virtual) that one should not be using root for more than one really needs. Timothy Reed Fusion Systems Group Ltd. ..!uunet!fsg!treed
linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (10/10/89)
In article <5665@fsg.UUCP> treed@fsg.UUCP (Timothy Reed) writes: >Right, it doesn't leave much room, but you don't really need that much room, I DO need that much room. I 'like' to keep 2 kernels and I don't want to overwrite utmp and wtmp every week. I intend to move those two files. > >Pyramid's got so many partitions to play with (both real and virtual) that >one should not be using root for more than one really needs. Agreed. Linda. -- Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. janet: linda@uk.ac.brunel.cc | :-) uucp:...ukc!cc.brunel!linda |