Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:06:50 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: failed X11 install, now what? Message-ID: <20031115190650.GB4754@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031115185507.GA4754@dds.nl> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031115092348.06019cb0@pop.face2interface.com> <20031115185507.GA4754@dds.nl>
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > This is what I found on the screen this morning after letting > > > > make all install clean > > Did you execute this in /usr/ports? Its better to select only the port > you like to have. > > > run all night: > > > > /usr: write failed, file system is full > > /usr/bin/tar: xc/fonts/util/KOI8-R.TXT: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes > > /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header > > /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. > > # > > > > ............................ > > > > # df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 35170 83502 30% / > > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 284 237076 0% /tmp > > /dev/ad1s1e 2030062 2015906 -148248 108% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 2762 234598 1% /var > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output. > > > Which brings to mind a couple questions. > > > > 1. ad1 is a 2GB ide slaved to ad0 which is only 1GB - what must I do > > immediately to clear space on ad1 or is nothing impacted with the disk > > being over full? > > A port first fetches the sources it need and places these in > /usr/ports/distfiles/. You could empty this with: > rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* > > You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount > them from there. As a added bonus, you then can let the other machine do > most of the building during updates of the main system. > > You could also move /usr/ports/ to this machine. You do need to edit the > working directory in /etc/make.conf (copy it from /etc/defaults/ if it > doesn't exist) becuase you don't want to mount the working directory. > > > > > 2. just how much space should I need? I know that's a loaded question, but > > I have another 2.5GB ide I could slave to the secondary port off the cdrom, > > or swap some disks around with other networks or; hard to plan unless I can > > make guesstimates about the future; is there a space planning guide around > > somewhere. > > It depends on what you like to do. My kde workstaion has a 2 GB disk and > du -h gives: > /dev/ad0s1g 2.0G 1.5G 340M 82% /usr > > This doesn't inculde /usr/ports/, /usr/src/ and /usr/obj/, since I let > antoher machine handle this. The later two are for upgrading your > system. > > du -sh /usr/* gives: > 287M X11R6 > 11M bin > 85M compat > 2.0K export1 > 1.5M games > 145M home (one user) > 8.8M include > 28M lib > 11M libdata > 16M libexec > 879M local > 428M ports (exist on another computer; the minium is 250M) > 334M src (exist on another computer) > 435M obj (exist on another computer) > 6.6M sbin > 36M share > > For a workstation with X and sources you need 3G, without souces you > need 2G. I do have a /tmp disk with 4G of space for building ports. Jdk requeres 2.5G and open office need 2 - 4 GB of space. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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