Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:08:42 +0300 From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs on / Message-ID: <20031213170842.5c581fd6.doublef@tele-kom.ru> In-Reply-To: <200312131402.59736.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com> <200312131402.59736.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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--Signature=_Sat__13_Dec_2003_17_08_42_+0300_YVCBwTixJMLzrBn1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:02:59 +1030 Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> probably wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > > Hey all... > > > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by > > using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room > > free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be > > affecting system use except that I can't add new users. > > > > Here's what I look like now: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127682 -9010 108% / > > I should have thought that 125Mb or so should have been ample for / when > /tmp, /var and /usr have there own partitions. > > Your mail prompted me to look at what I have under / and was somewhat > surprised to find about 90Mb. But when I examined this I found about 40Mb > was pure junk -- things like temproot, modules.old and etc.old1 left over from > a system update and a core file or two. > > Have you been running X applications (especially browsers) as root ---- a > practice frowned upon, mostly I guess, because it can swallow large gulps of > space on /. Not because of this, but because of security reasons. I believe something like # du -hx -d 1 / will help you find out what things use up the space. > I would certainly look at getting the total file size down in / rather than > trying to grow it. > > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- DoubleF Help a swallow land at Capistrano. --Signature=_Sat__13_Dec_2003_17_08_42_+0300_YVCBwTixJMLzrBn1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/2x10wo7hT/9lVdwRAnx6AJ9tX7a+tfJIDXMOulmB+Xy84+ZQFwCgg0Qf B9lMGM1BzmA/nqZxfjn+kD8= =z0pe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__13_Dec_2003_17_08_42_+0300_YVCBwTixJMLzrBn1--
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