From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 13: 2:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11807.mail.yahoo.com (web11807.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6990637B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011017200211.82409.qmail@web11807.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.170.168.118] by web11807.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:02:11 PDT Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:02:11 -0700 (PDT) From: X Philius Reply-To: xphilius@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Problems upgrading a machine with limited disk space To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3BCDDD09.33B29DA3@owt.com> 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 Kent, Here is the output of 'df -m' Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 193 97 80 55% / /dev/ad0s2f 787 683 41 94% /usr /dev/ad0s2e 48 0 43 2% /var procfs 0 0 0 100% /proc /dev/ad2s5 11579 1982 9596 17% /space It is a tri-boot machine, /space is an extended DOS partition that I share with Win98 and Win2K. As you can see, plenty of room there, but I am only devoting about a Gig to FreeBSD. Jason --- Kent Stewart wrote: > > > X Philius wrote: > > > > Folks, > > I'm upgrading a machine using CVsup, and I have limited disk space. There is not enough room > for > > /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same hard drive (I'm at 94% with only the new source loaded). So, > I > > am trying to move (ie mv) all of /usr/src over to another drive which has more space, > hopefully > > giving myself enough room to 'make buildworld'. I am moving /usr/src under the impression that > I > > cannot get 'make' to put my new binaries anywhere else other than /usr/obj after a 'make > > buildworld'. I get an odd error when trying to move the whole src folder, the error is pasted > > below: > > > > mv: /space/Everything/hell/src/usr.bin/window/:tty: Invalid argument > > mv: /space/Everything/hell/src/usr.bin/window/:var: Invalid argument > > mv: /space/Everything/hell/src/usr.bin/window/:ww: Invalid argument > > mv: /space/Everything/hell/src/usr.bin/window/:tt: Invalid argument > > mv: /space/Everything/hell/src/lib/libc/mips/:errfix: Invalid argument > > mv: /bin/cp: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link > > > > Naturally this makles me nervous to run make using this source. Ant suggestions? I used the mv > > command with no special flags. > > First of all, how much space do you have on your HD's? I have ln'ed > /usr/src and /usr/obj to other drives just fine. When I set up a system > to build and install on other systems, I changed my setup a little bit > and created a 1.5GB partition for both /usr/src and /usr/obj. Then, I > could nfs_mount them as /usr/... My df looks like > > coral# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s3a 248047 52450 175754 23% / > /dev/ad0s3f 992239 581 912279 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s3g 9477547 8691552 27792 100% /usr > /dev/ad0s3e 992239 108429 804431 12% /var > /dev/ad4s2e 1486814 382915 984954 28% /usr/obj > /dev/ad4s3e 12712841 1 11695813 0% /usr2 > /dev/ad6s2e 1486814 311915 1055954 23% /usr/src > /dev/ad6s3e 12712841 1 11695813 0% /usr3 > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > With the system on one controller and /usr/src and /usr/obj on different > controllers, I was able to drop my buildworld time from 40 minutes to 29 > minutes. > > I just noticed that /usr was running a 100%. I am doing something about > that right now. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > http://users.owt.com/kstewart > > Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message