From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 13:54:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FCA14EAA for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <2N1130B1>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:52:44 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A6066@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'greg strockbine' , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Root partition too small - did I screw up? Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:53:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Most likely you have /tmp on there and it is full of junk. Make a /usr/tmp directory and then symlink it to /tmp The best way to find out of course is to use du to find out what dir's are eating up all the space. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: greg strockbine [SMTP:gstrock@dpc.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:13 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Root partition too small - did I screw up? > > when it came time to partition my brand > new 14.4 Giga byte hard drive I chose > "Auto" to let the program do it. > > The other day I got a "/: file system full" error. > Something tells me I should have made the root > partition larger or do I just have too much junk > in there? Is it preferable to keep the root partition > tiny? > > Is there a version of partition magic for FreeBSD? :-) > > greg strockbine > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message