From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 13:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86E414C43 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13287; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:58:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 13:58:28 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Juan Kuuse Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which files are obsolete? In-Reply-To: <199911081936.LAA05446@www.geocrawler.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Juan Kuuse wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Juan Kuuse" > Be sure to reply to that address. > > I have two 3.1-RELEASE boxes. > I successfully upgraded one of them to 3.3-STABLE, following the tutorial instructions by Nik Clayton. > When I try do do the same on the other one, it compiles for a long while, then the /usr partition fills up. > > I deleted the /usr/obj directory, the /usr/ports directory, and symlinked /tmp -> /var/tmp > Still, before make buildworld, I start with: > (3.1-RELEASE box) > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s1a 31743 19580 9624 67% / > /dev/wd0s1f 1080887 852993 141424 86% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 29751 7629 19742 28% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > which seems to be too little disk space on /usr for an upgrade? yes, not enough space. try this command sequence: du -kx /usr | sort -n | more (substitute less for more if you have it installed) that ought to help you find the disk hogging files. also, please set your mailer to wrap lines longer than 70 characters. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message