Date: 05 Nov 1999 02:25:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PROCFS Space Message-ID: <86n1st6azl.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: courtney@whtz.com's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:42:03 -0500" References: <8525681F.005BBE41.00@mail.whtz.com>
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courtney@whtz.com writes:
> hey everyone-
>
> I've got a FreeBSD 3.2 box running here are our main mail server, and I've
> just noticed that I am at 100% capacity on my procfs portion of my
> drive...I''m getting errors about no free disk space when I try and add
> users, etc. How can I make BSD know it's got plenty of space, there is 3
> GB free on the rest of the drive....
The /proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem. It does not actually take
space in any of your disks, save an i-node or two.
If you're running out of space though, it might be a good idea to check
where all that space has gone. Use the df(1) command to see which of
your filesystems are getting full. Since it is adduser that fails, I
suspect that your / fs is full? Use the command
# cd /
# df -sk *
to see which subdirectory of / is using a lot of most space. Use the
same `df' command in subdirectories, until you spot places where you
could save some space. With 3 Gb of space, I would expect about 2 Gb to
be free on an installation of FreeBSD with X11, and all the sources,
along with a couple of compiled kernels and all their objects (this is
actually my setup).
If you have installed a lot of stuff from /usr/ports you might consider
removing all the tarballs from /usr/ports/distfiles and all the work
directories under /usr/ports with:
# cd /usr/ports
# find . -name work -type d -exec /bin/rm -fr '{}' \;
That will save you some space. At least it did for me...
--
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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