From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 16:10:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCCA106566C for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD598FC41 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 12:10:09 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.8.6-GA) with ESMTP id OOW44682; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:10:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 209-6-22-188.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.22.188]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 12:10:04 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18444.48219.458888.619615@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:10:03 -0400 To: Leslie Jensen In-Reply-To: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu> References: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Filesystem full...... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:10 -0000 Leslie Jensen writes: > /: write failed, filesystem is full > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > *** Error code 71 > > My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to > small? Yes. :-) Start by cleaning up /; usually that starts with /tmp ... but you've already got that on a separate partition, As for the size - the machine I'm currently on shows: huff@> du /boot | sort -nr | head 210558 /boot 93642 /boot/kernel 93002 /boot/kernel.old 22978 /boot/GENERIC 22 /boot/defaults 2 /boot/zfs 2 /boot/modules 2 /boot/firmware That's 220mb just for kernels. There's no reason I can't delete kernel.old or GENERIC ... but having fall-backs lets me sleep better. Add 13m for /sbin, 20m for /lib, and you're pretty much done. (That machine has a 500mb /.) Robert Huff