On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Chris Amthor wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Of course significant parts of the system live in /usr/, but this way
>even downloading the pkgsrc tarball to /tmp/ fails, since it just
>filles up the remaining 7.5MB.


Don't use /tmp for that. If you have /home on a seperate partition, which
is recommended, then download the tarball as a regular user in that
partition.

Personally, I create a /space partition, into which I link /usr/pkg ->
/space/usr/pkg and /var/db/pkg -> /space/var/db/pkg, and then you can take
any installed packages between otherwise clean installs. Then I create a
/space/tmp to use for large downloads or pkgsrc. I generally don't do any
real work on NetBSD (it's a play thing at the moment) so I usually can
blat users (me) and /home area. Else, I'd move those to /space as well.


>
>What are these default values good for, if sticking to them renders a
>fresh system unmaintainable?


Hardly unmaintainable. Just have to clear out logs from /var every now and
then.


>
>And how comes disklabel reports eight partitions? I see four, or a
>maximum of seven assuming that the partitions d-f do exist in some
>kind of a parallel universe... ;)


Sun disklabels have up to 7 slices + whole disk slice.


>
>Ah, before I forget: I'm talking about NetBSD-1.6.2/sparc, target
>system is SS5 with 48MB RAM installed.
>
>TIA,
>
>cheers,
>\end{kryz}
>
>

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