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Subject: RE: qcad port install failed.  Now what?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:30:21 -0500 
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Micke,

Thanks.  You gave me exactly what I was looking for... a direction.  Can I
safely remove everything in my /usr/tmp directory?  Is it possible to expand
my FBSD partition from within FBSD?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Micke Josefsson [SMTP:mj@isy.liu.se]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 01 August, 2000 0747
> To:	Mark A. Hummel
> Cc:	freebsd-questions
> Subject:	RE: qcad port install failed.  Now what?
> 
> 
> On 01-Aug-00 Mark A. Hummel wrote:
> > I made some progress on the qcad port.  I downloaded the new port from
> > the BSD site and did a make install.  Everything seems to go well
> > although a bit slow until I realized that the tar ball was over 4 megs
> > compressed.  Anyway, it finally errored out.
> > 
> > From the attached text file.  It looks to me like I don't have enough
> > disk space so, since I'm a newbie, I did some research.  I hit the book
> > and keyword searches of the man pages.  I found df! How can a slice of
> > my drive be more than 100%?
> > 
> > The question is what should I do next?  I assume I either need to free
> > up some disk space or expand one or more of my slices.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> Yep! You are short of space all right. The system reserves (when
> newfs-ing)
> some 8% of the disk capacity for use by root and system processes so that
> tha system will keep on going even though the disk is full. Normal users
> can not add anything.
> 
> Freeing up space is the easiest - if you can:)
> 
> Or get another disk (of sufficient size) and put your entire /usr/home on
> that one. vinum(8) can also be of use. 
> 
> I also see your / is full. My guess is that /tmp is full. You could
> symlink
> (ln(1) -s) /tmp to /usr/tmp, this will not save you any space but will
> stop
> the system from filling up /tmp (as it will now go to /usr/tmp instead)
> 
> du(1) with -s and/or -x options are also useful for analyzing what is up.
> 
> /M
> ----------------------------------
> Michael Josefsson, MSEE
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