From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 12:14:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta01.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D902837B403 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmail@detonate.net) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta01.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D551C413D; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5AE45274F; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Spam Central To: varian@1bigred.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: junkmail@detonate.net X-Originating-Ip: [24.161.154.122] Message-Id: <20010701191419.5AE45274F@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had that happen to me before. In my case, I unwittingly installed CPAN in it's default location(which is the / partition).. I don't know what you were doing before this happened, but there's a good chance you might have installed something in your / which now blocks you from doing certain things. For me, the resolution was as simple as deleting CPAN's directory. I hope this helps you out. On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:39:08PM +1000, Brandon Peyton wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help here. Obviously I've got a problem as I can hardly get > anything to work now that my / is full. > > I cannot afford to reformat as this is runs my mailserver/dns/webserver/etc. > My issue comes down to how can I create more room in my root directory. Its > clear I made a fatal mistake by only allowing 50M. > > What I am trying to figure out is how to add capacity to / without loosing > my files. I would like to simply reformat and change it which would take a > matter of minutes but I cannot. I would like to have at least 500M or a gig > as my /. > > What do you think? What is the best way to do this without loosing data. (I > do not want to use any kind of partition magic programs as I have had > nothing but failure from them). > > Thanks > brandon > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 48M 47M -2.2M 105% / > /dev/ad0s1f 5.7G 408M 4.8G 8% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19M 3.2M 15M 18% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc _____________________________________________________________ Wake up screaming. . . http://www.detonate.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message