Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:47:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alex Davidson <alexd@idcomm.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Resize Disk Message-ID: <19981130164727.E1447@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36620440.F58C5925@idcomm.com>; from Alex Davidson on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:34:40PM -0700 References: <36620440.F58C5925@idcomm.com>
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On Sunday, 29 November 1998 at 19:34:40 -0700, Alex Davidson wrote: > I am fairly new to FreeBSD and have installed 2.2.7 on a 1GB drive along > with XFree86 and KDE (+ it's utils, games etc.) and Netscape Communicator > 4.05. > > Having finally received my Complete FreeBSD book I started messing around a > little and decided to add me as a real user instead of using root. In the > process I ran out of disk space! That was quick! > > When I do df it says that / is at 109% Capacity, /usr is at 49%, /var is at > 7%, /proc is at 100% and /mnt is at 74% This is why the book recommends to have only two partitions. What do you have mounted on /mnt? That's normally used for temporary mounts. > I am having problems now when I receive email - obviously it really > is out of space - and Netscape closes itself when I try and clean > out my Trash folder. > > Is there a command (I have not found) that will allow me to resize the > filesystem? Not online. > What about a way to clean up the installation? Might there be > some temp files somewhere I can delete? Maybe, especially in the root file system. Take a look in /tmp. You could also go looking for .core files: # find . -name "*.core" Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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