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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:11:12 -0800
From:      Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jian Guang Xu <jianguang.xu@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice
Message-ID:  <200410311711.12394.mnavarre@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <274e8bdc041031160265de0d03@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <274e8bdc041031160265de0d03@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sunday 31 October 2004 04:02, Jian Guang Xu wrote:
> Is there any way I could resize this partition?
> PEARLBSD# df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s3a    253678  139846   93538    60%    /
> devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s3e    253678     108  233276     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s3f  10275212 4797722 4655474    51%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s3d    253678  195496   37888    84%    /var
> linprocfs           4       4       0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
>
>
> PEARLBSD# pkg_add -r openoffice
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/op
>enoffice.tbz... /var: write failed, filesystem is full
> OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicudata.so.22.0: (null)

You don't need to resize the partition. pkg_add uses /var/tmp by default, 
since your /var is nearly full pkg_add chokes while extracting the package. 
To solve this set PKG_TMPDIR to point to someplace with more space.

> I couldn't find a solution through the internet. Thank you in advance
>
> Regards,
> JX
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