Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:54:40 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Robertsen A. Riehle" <rar102@ra.msstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding /var/db/pkg Message-ID: <17527.13008.975430.733918@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <200605261140.35648.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> References: <200605251755.55461.rar102@ra.msstate.edu> <17526.15287.919244.548666@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20060525200308.ov3zgj80wgk48044@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <200605261140.35648.rar102@ra.msstate.edu>
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Robertsen A. Riehle writes: > Fetching > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/gcc41.tbz... > /var: write failed, filesystem is full > info/gcc41/gccint.info: Write error: No space left on device > Done. > ^C > /var: write failed, filesystem is full > Signal 2 received, cleaning up.. > > But.... > su-2.05b# df -h /var > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2d 248M 183M 45M 80% /var > > Surely, a gcc package doesn't take up 45M. Objection - fact not in evidence. I don't _know_ how much room gcc takes ... but if someone told me 45 megabytes I wouldn't disagree. Followup questions: 1) what is the output of "du /var | sort -nr | head -n 40"? 2) does "lsof" show any open files you don't recognize, or or have no reason to be open? Robert Huff
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