From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 23:30: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C90437B400 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA17710; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:28:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 23:28:14 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jolok Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeing space on /usr In-Reply-To: <000601c1c94b$5bd65d70$06aae00c@jolok> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jolok wrote: > yeah, something is definitely not right. > > I install FreeBSD 4.5, with no packages other than bash and tcsh; and the > ports collection. i then write the xfree86-4.2.0 tarball to my root > directory. i rm the old XFree86-4 dir, then unzip the tarball into a new > XFree86-4 dir. I then attempt to build the port as normal. It makes fine, > but after make install I receive the aforementioned errors, a few minutes > into the install. I have done this MANY times now, and it has never worked. > My /usr directory always reports 23% full before i begin building x. BTW, i > am only installing the kernel src. Ideas? > > jolok I don't know why you're writing the putting the tar ball in your "root" directory ... probably you're building Xfree 4 in / instead of in /usr/ports. There's no need for you to unpack the tarball; the ports make system does this for you, and puts the stuff in a work directory. The "make build" (or just "make", or "make all") command does all the steps up to installation. You really should have plenty of space. You said you had a 1.4GB /usr, so a fourth of that should be only some 400MB. My XFree-4 tar balls are about 50MB and the work directory where it built is actually less. I'm not sure if you're running out of space in /tmp ... you might want to move /tmp to /usr and do a symlink to it so this problem doesn't arise. When you respond, please respond to "all" so that freebsd-questions is included. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message