On 2019-04-07 10:54 a.m., Markus Egg wrote:
Hello,
I was trying SuSE leap 15 on some older laptop with XFCE since KDE5 trashed the multiple virtual desktops in favour of some activity stuff that I do not like.
Today after not using the laptop for a longer time I started this laptop when suddenly it said that / is full. I was partitioning the disk so that /var ... 18447056k / ... 11287752k /home ... 137612008k
So approx 11.3GB seem to be too small for / ?
The OOPS that I see is something I occasionally get roasted for. I put /tmp on a separate partition (or since I use LVM, a separate LV). There are many processes that might legitimately use copious quantities of /tmp, and a few that might illegitimately or carelessly do so. Take a look: Oh my, all those 'systemd-private*', 'ssh-*' and 'gpg-*' that get left behind and not cleaned out and accumulate. Now since I have those on separate partition I can still log in since my root partition isn't jammed solid even if my /tmp is. OK, I can't do much until I clean out my /tmp, but at least I can log in. An absolutely full root partition, as I'm sure you've found, makes life very difficult for GUI users! The real answer to your question is "it all depends". my home desktop has separate /srv and /opt and /var (which I also get roasted for occasionally (and probably rightly so if it comes to "15")). But then I fill the srv with web site stuff and the .opt with a lot of experimental stuff. My root partition includes /usr, BUT I've moved the man pages and stuff off to a separate volume. So I get; # df -h / Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgmain-vROOT4 ext4 40G 5.3G 34G 14% / Oh my! I should be using reiserfs so I can shrink that! and currently, after a recent clean out: # df -h /tmp Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgmain-vTMP ext4 9.8G 31M 9.2G 1% /tmp I have a rather small for my memory load SWAP # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda2 partition 5858300 0 2 but then, as you see, even with a firefox @ 300+ tabs and a Thunderbird with over 30 accounts, I don't need swap. pay for all the real memory you can get. Like the old IBMer said: "Virtual memory means virtual performance". -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org