Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:51:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jmcl@Acucobol.IE Cc: "Gregory G. Losik" <gregor@cc.gatech.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /: file system is full Message-ID: <19970909085107.25727@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709081258.NAA05640@guinness.acucobol.ie>; from John McLaughlin on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 02:07:12PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970906230921.24533A-100000@felix.cc.gatech.edu> <199709081258.NAA05640@guinness.acucobol.ie>
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 02:07:12PM +0000, John McLaughlin wrote: > On 6 Sep 97 at 23:12, Gregory G. Losik wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> This is really easy one but I wasn't able to find anything that simple in >> archives and maybe you can refer me to some manual where I can learn more... >> >> I just installed 2.2.2 on my 1gig partition. Used auto for creation of /, >> /usr, /var, and /proc FS. Installed X, and later during addition of >> other packages got something like "/: file system is full" df -k reports >> 109% used for /. >> Basicly, I am trying to find out what are my options and what tools can I >> use to change things (lots of rm:)? What's best configuration? >> >> Now, my / is 31M, /usr is ~1gig, and /var = 30M. Don't have any data yet. > > Did you by chance install Linux compatibility (or any other for that > matter).This will install all the Linux lib stuff into /compat, and > will *very* quickly hose a 32Mb root partition, I've been there. Thanks. This looks like being the correct answer. > The way round it is to create a compat directory in /usr and symlink > it to /compat, and *then* install the packages. With a 31Mb root, > this is also a good time to symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp, as I've run out > of unpacking space on small root partitions occasionally while > unpacking space hungry things like Perl, Emacs et al. I don't know whether to recommend this solution as standard. I'm using it myself (sorry, I suppose I should have thought of it earlier, but I did it some time ago, and didn't think about it). I find that my Linux compatibility takes up 13.5 MB. The other alternative is, of course, to recommend a 45 MB root slice. There's nothing so holy about /compat that it *should* be in the root slice, but I don't like gratuituous symlinks either. I'm copying FreeBSD-hackers on this--there's a good chance that they'll have some input. Please follow up to -hackers. Greg
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