Sunday, February 28, 2021

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

Den sön 28 feb. 2021 kl 14:51 skrev <tetrahedra@danwin1210.me>:
> I deleted the file and `pkg_add libreoffice` worked as expected.
> Post-install I still have 746MB free in /, according to `df -h`.
>
> This makes little sense to me. Why should deleting a 20MB file on a
> filesystem with >700MB free space be sufficient for the install to go
> through? Especially when the install obviously doesn't need that much
> space on the filesystem in question?
>
> (space available in /usr/local went from 11.4G, pre-install, to 10.8G,
> post-install... was `pkg_add` trying to stage files in /, even though
> /tmp is a separate filesystem?)

Is /var a filesystem of its own? Otherwise it could be /var/tmp or
some other place under /var which is used for unpacking packages.

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