Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:25:11 -0700 From: "Gayn Winters" <gayn.winters@mail.bristolsystems.com> To: "'Elliot Crosby-McCullough'" <freebsd@xianshi.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Root 8% reserved space and tunefs Message-ID: <08a901c583d9$9d977d60$c901a8c0@workdog> In-Reply-To: <42CE8F97.4020307@xianshi.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Elliot Crosby-McCullough > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:37 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Root 8% reserved space and tunefs > > > Evening. > > We are downloading an item to a freebsd 5.3 server > which has a size a > little short of the max size of the HD. For technical > reasons there is > no way to remove portions of the item before it is finished. > > There is enough space but only if the 8% reserved for > root is taken > into account. This is not currently being used as the files > are being > aquired as www (via apache). > > I cannot use tunefs to free the 8% as the files are on > /usr/ and cannot > be umounted. > > If anyone has any ideas they would be much appreciated; > the only things > we haven't tried are slowly shifting the data onto a seperate slice, > shifting the volume bit by bit, trying to have apache run as root > temporarily or replacing the HD with a larger one (the latter > being the > least viable). > > Sincerely, > Elliot Crosby-McCullough Buy an extra disk drive? If there is no space to plug in another drive, you could use an USB external drive. -gayn
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