From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 20:30: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C72437B9AF for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA32072; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:30:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:30:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: click46 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of hard drive space? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.0.20000730200452.00b19138@mail.webpimps.net> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG click46 wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hello, > Just downloaded FreeBSD 4.1 and then proceeded to install Apache. After > getting Apache to start, I went and *tried* to gunzip -d > php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz, it returns "/kernel: pid 288 (gunzip), uid 0 on /: > file system full" Sounds like you tried to uncompress the archive somewhere on the / partition (perhaps you tried it in /tmp?). /, by nature, is a very small partition, and shouldn't be used for temp archive extractions, anyway. Delete what it has uncompressed to free up the space you lost on /, and try to extract it elsewhere (i.e., somewhere under /usr, which will be much larger). > I used defaults for partitions, and the drive is a 1.7GB. How can I tell > how much space is left on a partition/drive and Use the ``df'' command. The 1K-blocks column represents the size of the drive, in kilobytes (divide by factors of 2^10 to get megabytes, gigabytes, etc) "Used" is the amount of space that has been used (again, in 1K blocks). "Avail" is the amount of space remaining. > why would I get something like this. Just like the error message states, you ran out of space. Make sure that you start the uncompression on a filesystem that is large enough to handle it. > I tried to gunzip them while logged on as root and in the /root/ > directory. Unless you mount it by itself, or symlink from elsewhere, the /root/ directory is stored on the / partition. > > Thanks for any help. > > lates, > click46 > > Hope this helps, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message