Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:43:11 -0600 From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> To: Ron Joordens <ron.joordens@indec.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /root file system full Message-ID: <20040303214311.GC20497@therub.org> In-Reply-To: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377211FB@INDEC-NTSERVER> References: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377211FB@INDEC-NTSERVER>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find > an answer in the handbook or by searching through the extensive resources > available on the net. Great documentaion! This is the first time I have > needed to ask a question. > > My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem, > what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it > doesn't happen again. > > Any thoughts? > > For background information: > > The / filesystem is the suggested default of 128mb. The handbook says that > root is generally about 40mb of data and that 100mb should be enough to > allow for future expansion needs, so 128mb should be adequate. > > During installation I installed everything, sources, ports, documentation, > etc. > > I have CVSuped source to RELENG_4_9. > > I have CVSuped ports. > > I have recompiled the kernel 3 or 4 times. > > I have redirected the /tmp directory to /usr/tmp (these locations are from > memory but you get the idea) > > I got a bit carried away installing ports during installation (a kid in a > candy store?) and currently have about 206 installed. > > I have been updating ports recently using portupgrade with the recursive > switches -rR. > > At the time the first filesystem full error message was seen I was > portupgrading arts -Rr which was upgrading a lot of other ports as well. > That process stopped with an error message stating that a conflict between > xfmail and qt existed and that qt could not be upgraded untill xfmail was > deinstalled so there may be a lot of working data still on the system. Would > that be on root? > > Thanks for your help, > > Ron Joordens > Melbourne, Australia Good Evening ;) 128MB is enough for / if you also set up all of the other partitions correctly. If you showed us a df -h we could more easily see your layout. That said, if this is a hobby system as it sounds like, you may be able to get by with fewer partitions. Personally, on desktop systems, I like to put /usr/home on it's own partition and I just throw everythign else on /. It all depends on what you're using the system for, really. That way, I can totally nuke everything, do a full reinstall from scratch, and still have my user environment how I like it without having to goof around with restoring from backups. Regardless of what you decide to do - a reinstall may be in order (sorry). But, chalk it up to experience. You'll have a much cleaner system the second time around :) hth, dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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