From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 20:47:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anarchy.io.com (anarchy.io.com [199.170.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF1B37B9C8 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from dumpster.io.com.io.com (aus-as4-034.io.com [208.2.105.34]) by anarchy.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA10642; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:47:27 -0500 To: click46 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of hard drive space? References: <4.3.1.0.20000730200452.00b19138@mail.webpimps.net> From: Lars Eighner Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:53:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: click46's message of "Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:08:42 -0700" Message-ID: <868zujc5va.fsf@dumpster.io.com> Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Capitol Reef" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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