Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 03:10:02 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <20100707031002.2fb9421b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2E059D.7050106@qeng-ho.org> References: <AANLkTil7rb8_YNbGPfwsNt1_Zn4hdOr9hTpGwVwTEbrF@mail.gmail.com> <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <AANLkTinLgvd9GLP8RXeiWcowBoFxSeZSJLMHjCFq8jGR@mail.gmail.com> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> <4C2DF1DA.2020503@qeng-ho.org> <20100702153814.00000aa2@unknown> <4C2E059D.7050106@qeng-ho.org>
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On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:28:29 +0100 Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > I suspect whoever you were talking to probably has more of a clue > than I do. As a quick data point, I just ran "portsnap fetch update" > while another process did a "df /var; sleep 1" loop and /var > increased by about 30MB at its peak. That was a week after the last > port update. I've no idea how much space a "portsnap fetch extract" > would take and would rather not do one right now. The temporary space is likely used by the "fetch" stage for downloaded patch files. I don't think "update" or "extract" use much storage on /var.
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