Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:00:30 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stuck Message-ID: <AANLkTikBjzg%2ByboYnyOBPAqDLjFkiMKCcx3AOvg1PJSo@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net> References: <4D580C00.6060902@comcast.net> <19800.3705.156052.864114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net>
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On 13 February 2011 13:53, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Rem Roberti writes: >> >>> =A0This is a new one for me. =A0I decided to do a manual update on my >>> =A08.1 box, starting with csup. =A0Buildworld went fine, as did >>> =A0buildkernel. =A0However, when I tried to install the new kernel >>> =A0installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it >>> =A0could not proceed because the root partition was full. =A0What! =A0I >>> =A0did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. =A0When >>> =A0I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for >>> =A0the root partion, which is around 10G. =A0Anyway, when I rebooted, >>> =A0the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently >>> =A0where I stand. =A0I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and >>> =A0would appreciate any help in fixing this. =A0Of course, I smell a >>> =A0newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out >>> =A0where I went wrong. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Start with this: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0This will give you the largest directories; if any of the= m >> don't look right - investigate further. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 >> gbytes, of which I use 1.1. =A010 gbytes is a lot of space > > I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with > another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for > root. =A0When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very > large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which finall= y > allowed me to boot the computer normally. =A0This was an intuitive move, = and > probably not that kosher, but it worked. =A0But where do we go from here? > Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going to be debugging). Build with "makeoptions DEBUG=3D-g" commented out of your kernel config. (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less) --=20 --
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