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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!csn!hansford!murrayc From: murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD] /: write failed, file system is full Keywords: [NetBSD] file system full Message-ID: <sCeDsAwFBh107h@hansford.com> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 07:29:48 -0700 References: <1u3tqlINNner@news.u.washington.edu> <1ug80hINN7p5@news.u.washington.edu> Organization: The Hansford Group - Contract Software Engineering and Consulting Lines: 16 In <1ug80hINN7p5@news.u.washington.edu> ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) writes: >2.) If your installing NetBSD, you might consider making your root > partition ALITTLE bit bigger than I did try 15 plus MB. Making > it 8 MB (as suggested in the install doc) leaves only 2.2 MB free > which is TOO TIGHT for development. You also should consider making /var a separate partition. This way, if if fills up, it won't crash root. I would make root 8MB, and /var something like 16MB, or 32MB if you are spooling mail and news. Obviously you need the disk space to be able to do this. -- Charles H. Murray "Performing Rocket Science at Software Engineering Consultant Orbital Sciences Corporation Breckenridge, Colorado USA Chantilly, Virginia USA" murrayc@hansford.com