Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:53:45 -0500 From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: click46 <click46@webpimps.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of hard drive space? Message-ID: <868zujc5va.fsf@dumpster.io.com> In-Reply-To: click46's message of "Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:08:42 -0700" References: <4.3.1.0.20000730200452.00b19138@mail.webpimps.net>
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In our last episode, <4.3.1.0.20000730200452.00b19138@mail.webpimps.net>, the lovely and talented click46 c> Hello, Just downloaded FreeBSD 4.1 and then proceeded to install c> Apache. After getting Apache to start, I went and *tried* to gunzip c> -d php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz, it returns "/kernel: pid 288 (gunzip), uid c> 0 on /: file system full" c> I used defaults for partitions, and the drive is a 1.7GB. This is adequate for many purposes (not a full newsfeed, of course). c> How can I tell how much space is left on a partition/drive df c> and why would I c> get something like this. I tried to gunzip them while logged on as c> root and in the /root/ directory. You may very well be out of disk space. /root is usually part of / which is not a very large space. You just are not meant to do a whole lot of stuff in /root. And /tmp is also on /. / can fill up fast if you try to do very much. Basically, you should be doing the kinds of things you are trying to do in /usr. /usr/tmp is as good a place as any for experimenting. Of course, you may have some kind of runaway file. Use ls -al in the various subdirectories of / to see if something seems amiss. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/ God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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