From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 1:31:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A6DA37B42C for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23054 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2000 08:31:08 -0000 Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (10.0.0.3) by bak.evertsen.nl with SMTP; 29 Aug 2000 08:31:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:31:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Klop To: locus Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / is full while updating In-Reply-To: <001101c01192$a3b57710$4c44023e@aldrin> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If the problem is a full /tmp you can try to copy/move all the files from /tmp to /usr/tmp and link /tmp to /usr/tmp (ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp). On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, locus wrote: > Well /tmp dir is using up alot of space. But i dont know if what is still > needed to finish the updating. > > [root@gagarin /tmp] du -skh /* > 5.0K /COPYRIGHT > 3.8M /bin > 370K /boot > 4.1M /cdrom > 0B /compat > 41K /dev > 1.1M /dist > 606K /etc > 0B /home > 3.0M /kernel > 2.7M /kernel.GENERIC > 2.7M /kernel.old > 14M /mnt > 3.4M /modules > 2.8M /modules.old > 18K /proc > 636K /root > 9.7M /sbin > 1.7M /stand > 0B /sys > 16M /tmp > [root@gagarin /tmp] du -skh * > 0B acin.kLIpZr2490 > 2.5M install.2548 > 2.5M install.292 > 863K install.32 > 2.5M install.377 > 2.5M install.378 > 2.5M install.472 > 2.5M install.91 > 153K locatevsKwIZ1747 > 0B mysql.sock > 2.0K screens > [root@gagarin /tmp] > > > Have you tried cleaning out your /tmp directory? It looks like something > > is taking up alot of space on the root partition. > > > > What else is on /? (show me a "ls -lF /" and a "du -sk /*") > > > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, locus wrote: > > > > > i just tried to update my box from 4.0R to 4.1S. While doing 'make > > > installworld' my root partition got out of space (i dont have many > > > non-system files in my root partition, only about 3-4MB at most). Maybe > you > > > think, why i only have a 50MB root partition. Well i let the > installation > > > program allocate the space for the partitions automaticly ( i thought > they > > > have to know how big a root partition has to be :) ). Well the only > solution > > > i can think of at the moment is to buy a new hard disk and make a bigger > > > root partition. Or are there any other ways to get enough free space to > > > finish updateing my system? > > > If not...whats the best way to get my root partition to an other disk? > So > > > that i can boot of it? > > > Would installing the bsd boot loader on the new disk, and then cp the > root > > > to the other disk work? > > > > > > /dev/ad0s1a 51M 50M -3.7M 108% / > > > /dev/ad0s1f 3.9G 1.1G 2.5G 30% /usr > > > /dev/ad0s1e 20M 3.0M 16M 16% /var > > > procfs 4.1K 4.1K 0B 100% /proc > > > /dev/ad2s1e 9.9G 7.4G 1.7G 81% /usr/home/smb > > > > > > thanks, Tom > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > - -- Ronald Klop http://klop.yi.org/ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ http://klop.yi.org/~ronald/ PGP: http://klop.yi.org/~ronald/pgp.txt mailto:ronald@klop.yi.org?Subject=publicpgpkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOat0yxk9lWSXChWeEQJmvwCgs21Vu7MwU8HC9/3G4JV7HQN/DXQAoIRn mU9pQDW++KJcGyrUsbPaLVhj =2s7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message