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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:59:48 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem full......
Message-ID:  <20080421115948.31ac0a4a.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu>
References:  <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu>

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In response to Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>:

> 
> During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get
> 
> /: write failed, filesystem is full
> install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
> *** Error code 71
> 
> output of df -H gives
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    260M    259M    -20M   108%    /
> devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1g    127G     30G     87G    25%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1e    260M     26M    213M    11%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f     26G    6.0G     18G    25%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d    260M    209M     30M    87%    /var
> /dev/ad4s1d    387G    119G    237G    33%    /backup
> linprocfs      4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> 
> It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
> times before.
> 
> My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?

Your / is too small for modern version of FreeBSD.

However, you probably can get around this.  My / partition on a 7.X
system is only 160M, so there's probably some stuff you can clean out
to make room.  Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up
some space if removed?

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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