Date: 28 Sep 2004 22:23:36 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7->5.0, ran out of space on / Message-ID: <1096446218.2625.40.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0409271234412a6ce6@mail.gmail.com> References: <001101c2c252$03ebd850$12387618@q1d0p9> <20030122100925.O3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <790a9fff0409271234412a6ce6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:34, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:02 -1000 (HST), Vincent Poy > <vince@oahu.wurldlink.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > > > > > I just ran into a problem trying to install the 5.0 world. I thought I > > > checked and had 30M free on / before I started this. However, after > > > building, the world, building the kernel, installing the kernel, running > > > mergemaster -p, I went to install the world and got the error 'out of > > > space on /' > > > > > > I need to find some room, but I'm a little nervous about what I can rm. > > > Here is what I'm looking at: > > > > > > 1) / partition is 79M, 64M are used (I was almost sure there was > > > more room than that on / before I satarted). > > > 2) /tmp is on it's own partition > > > 3) du -h on subdirectories breakdown like this. > > > a. 18M /boot > > > b. 1.4M /etc > > > c. 3.7M /kernel > > > d. 3.9M /kern.GENERIC If Scot's advice doesn't do it, as a last resort, delete the kernel you are not using. Only do this if the one you do use is working well. But this size problem could haunt you later on in 5.x anyway. Gary Dunn Honolulu
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