Me again.. Just had a call from the RTFM daemon: > To answer my own questions... > > I moved /var to a larger partition (see > http://www.freebsddiary.org/file-system-full.php for a HOW-TO) > > > Questions: > > - I presume pkg_add puts temporary files in /var. Is this normal / > > sensible? > > pkg_add uses /var/tmp. (any reason why not /tmp?).
The manpage says: ... The environment variables PKG_TMPDIR and TMPDIR, in that order, are taken to name temporary directories where pkg_add will attempt to create its staging area in. If these variables are not present or if the directo- ries named lack sufficient space, then pkg_add will use the first of /var/tmp, /tmp or /usr/tmp with sufficient space. ... > > > - what would be a reasonable ball park figure for /var? > > On a desktop system a good couple of hundred MB? Even then it might > be prudent to symlink /var/tmp to a larger partion when installing > bloatware ;-) Or do this (again from the man page): ... -t template Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging area''. By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX, but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where space in your /var/tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a unique ID. You can get a performance boost by setting the staging area template to reside on the same disk partition as target directo- ries for package file installation; often this is /usr. ... Enlightend S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message