Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:02:59 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Jeff LaMarche <jeff_lamarche@mac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs on / Message-ID: <200312131402.59736.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com> References: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > Hey all... > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by > using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room > free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be > affecting system use except that I can't add new users. > > Here's what I look like now: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127682 -9010 108% / I should have thought that 125Mb or so should have been ample for / when /tmp, /var and /usr have there own partitions. Your mail prompted me to look at what I have under / and was somewhat surprised to find about 90Mb. But when I examined this I found about 40Mb= =20 was pure junk -- things like temproot, modules.old and etc.old1 left over= from=20 a system update and a core file or two. Have you been running X applications (especially browsers) as root ---- a= =20 practice frowned upon, mostly I guess, because it can swallow large gulps= of=20 space on /. I would certainly look at getting the total file size down in / rather th= an=20 trying to grow it. Malcolm
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