From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 17:53:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B243410656C0 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4588FC16 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 7Vrf1g0030FhH24A7VtaVi; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:34 +0000 Received: from lappy.bsd ([67.180.204.190]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 7VtW1g00146zqiB8UVtXcS; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:33 +0000 Message-ID: <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:53:09 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110202 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <4D580C00.6060902@comcast.net> <19800.3705.156052.864114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <19800.3705.156052.864114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Stuck X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:34 -0000 On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote: > Rem Roberti writes: > >> This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my >> 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did >> buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel >> installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it >> could not proceed because the root partition was full. What! I >> did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. When >> I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for >> the root partion, which is around 10G. Anyway, when I rebooted, >> the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently >> where I stand. I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and >> would appreciate any help in fixing this. Of course, I smell a >> newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out >> where I went wrong. > Start with this: > > du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 > > This will give you the largest directories; if any of them > don't look right - investigate further. > (For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 > gbytes, of which I use 1.1. 10 gbytes is a lot of space I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for root. When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which finally allowed me to boot the computer normally. This was an intuitive move, and probably not that kosher, but it worked. But where do we go from here? Rem