10 pounds in a 5 pound bag..

[Tony Facca]

I have a complaint to file, a bone to pick, an axe to grind..

I am wondering if anyone has been inconvenienced by the rather puny / 
partition of the Iris 3x0VGX systems running 3.3?

Here is a df:
  Filesystem                 Type  blocks     use   avail %use  Mounted on
  /dev/root                   efs   30360   25522    4838  84%  /
  /dev/usr                    efs 1144503  382654  761849  33%  /usr
  /debug                      dbg  196848   10224  186624   5%  /debug

Now, I can live with 2 Meg available, but it sure is annoying.  So far, I've 
had errors trying to gen a new kernel (I saved the old one as unix.save which 
did not leave enough room for unix.install), compiling some codes (I had to re-
define the TMPDIR environment variable), and installing local software (we 
use the /tmp directory to uncompress and untar).  Nothing terrible, just a
bother.

What appears to have happened either in the 3.2 -> 3.3 conversion or the VGX
upgrade which increased the size of /etc/gl is that the number of blocks in 
use went from around 17000 to around 25000.

Has anyone dealt with this situation in manner they would be proud to present?
I've heard of linking /usr/tmp to /tmp but we use /usr/tmp for something else.
I may set the TMPDIR variable in /etc/cshrc, but I don't know what other
surprises await.  Can I delete a couple of the files in /etc/gl without causing
more problems (specifically, what are initvideo and setmon doing here?)  Are
there other places to look for additional disk space?  Should I.. repartition?

Note to SGI:  Perhaps it's time to increase the size of the root partition 
when you format the disk?  Please don't get me wrong.  I don't mean to sound
ingrateful, I probably wouldn't remember how to partition the disk myself 
anymore if I had to.  And it's great that the disks come with eoe1 and eoe2
loaded (with the ALL option!), but 4800 blocks won't cut it.

Humbly Submitted for Consideration,  
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