Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:40:01 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> Subject: Re: filesystem full, but still going(?) - newbie Message-ID: <20020113113336.P173-100000@BLAST> In-Reply-To: <20020112221238.A4885@HAL9000.wox.org>
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat@club-internet.fr>: > > Bernie wrote: > > > df showed the following: > ... > > > /usr counts negative... > > > > > > so, what happens here? is it taking space from other filesystem > > > to do the job? and for how long will that go? > > > > > # tunefs -p /usr > ... > > tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8% > > tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time > > > > you (and I) have 8% by default allocated to root > > use tunefs -m 2 /usr to reclaim some space. > > By the way, setting minfree to less than 5% forces optimization for > space, which will ``greatly increase the overhead for file writes'' > according to tunefs(8). This may or may not be what you want. Also > keep in mind that when some daemons that typically run as root run out > of disk space, Bad Things can happen. > > > do i have to stop the 'make'? seems to be carying on ok... > > No, it will stop by itself if you're really out of space. But since > you're running `make' as root, you have access to that 8% buffer and > you do not have a problem. When the build completes, type `make > clean' to remove the object files created by the build, or `make > distclean' to remove the original tarballs. You might consider > running `make -DNO_DEPENDS' clean' from /usr/ports to clean up after > all of your past installs. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > hi, thank you for your reply. yes, make stoped 2 mins after i posted... the solution turned out to be quite easy... i just copied all /usr/ports int /home/ports (there is a lot of free space there) and did an ln -s to make /usr/ports pointing to /home/ports and all works fine now. after seeing what you said about tunfs, i set it again for 10%. as you said any more overhead is not what i want... i got an old pentium 233mmx and the disk transfers are quite slow... Regards, --Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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