From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 17:10:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6AEA151DC for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a065.otenet.gr [195.167.115.65]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA15539 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 03:09:14 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 2483 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Nov 1999 00:25:03 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PROCFS Space References: <8525681F.005BBE41.00@mail.whtz.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 05 Nov 1999 02:25:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: courtney@whtz.com's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:42:03 -0500" Message-ID: <86n1st6azl.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 40 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message