From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 0:32:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A9B37B4EC for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:31:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1D7i4v64453; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:44:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:44:03 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Brad W Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transfer disk space form /usr to root partition In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Brad W wrote: > First of all, is this possible? I have exceeded all available space on my > root partition. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 51M 51M -4.0M 109% / > /dev/ad0s2f 4.6G 1.8G 2.4G 42% /usr > /dev/ad0s2e 20M 9.7M 9.0M 52% /var > procfs 4.1K 4.1K 0B 100% /proc yes, this is entirely possible. FreeBSD allocates some extra space to protect you from this situation. To clean up the problem, remove extra files from /tmp and /root. > I should have made my root partition larger when I initially installed but, > ahh... too late now. Is there any valuable documentation on doing this and > if so where? 51MB should be adequate for any properly-administered box. I've got a few machines running with 20 or 30 MB / partitions and have never run into problems. Most likely you've accumulated a bunch of files in /root or /tmp which has over-filled your / partition. On my systems, /root is a symlink to /home/root, and /tmp is a symlink to /usr/tmp, which means that they'll always have enough room. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message