Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: jmcl@Acucobol.IE, "Gregory G. Losik" <gregor@cc.gatech.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /: file system is full Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908230109.1655G-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970909085107.25727@lemis.com>
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I had this same problem is there some reason the linux compat stuff even has to be in the root directory at all? I think I made a link from /compat to /us/local/compat for this. On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 02:07:12PM +0000, John McLaughlin wrote: > > On 6 Sep 97 at 23:12, Gregory G. Losik wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> This is really easy one but I wasn't able to find anything that simple in > >> archives and maybe you can refer me to some manual where I can learn more... > >> > >> I just installed 2.2.2 on my 1gig partition. Used auto for creation of /, > >> /usr, /var, and /proc FS. Installed X, and later during addition of > >> other packages got something like "/: file system is full" df -k reports > >> 109% used for /. > >> Basicly, I am trying to find out what are my options and what tools can I > >> use to change things (lots of rm:)? What's best configuration? > >> > >> Now, my / is 31M, /usr is ~1gig, and /var = 30M. Don't have any data yet. > > > > Did you by chance install Linux compatibility (or any other for that > > matter).This will install all the Linux lib stuff into /compat, and > > will *very* quickly hose a 32Mb root partition, I've been there. > > Thanks. This looks like being the correct answer. > > > The way round it is to create a compat directory in /usr and symlink > > it to /compat, and *then* install the packages. With a 31Mb root, > > this is also a good time to symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp, as I've run out > > of unpacking space on small root partitions occasionally while > > unpacking space hungry things like Perl, Emacs et al. > > I don't know whether to recommend this solution as standard. I'm > using it myself (sorry, I suppose I should have thought of it earlier, > but I did it some time ago, and didn't think about it). I find that > my Linux compatibility takes up 13.5 MB. > > The other alternative is, of course, to recommend a 45 MB root slice. > There's nothing so holy about /compat that it *should* be in the root > slice, but I don't like gratuituous symlinks either. I'm copying > FreeBSD-hackers on this--there's a good chance that they'll have some > input. Please follow up to -hackers. > > Greg > >
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