From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 18:01:17 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 5726E106564A for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE1F8FC15 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so4653551fxm.13 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:01:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=h1Cn4/mSr0oiaoLiwjcdfkcvmV3ZupoGEeXRGf2S72A=; b=lNn0kh5hfBm1SGE+fdq6SXVW9DhFyaUoWpVawSs9OF6xv5+6KlwOrK8Vj2ZzKQ/9uL V8NW53t6epTn9ye4uZTBoeCBaeAPSErpDmRdlhEt5uu9YiHhr/ZQNnXIPPQCvitPXRxB OnNPPG3QDYHiR5kREVGiGM6NWXa94xZUvm+Uo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AIgtFpaIbX7swmssRozcQyS7zgfGY+R/fvtB7woCzIBBuH+RIvxhbZKbkrWdCgbSSB 0M1IUtIIILHTCvnNhEXnyDlX44vu3b99ZmdA888c4nQGN42uoTRh8WkCS3FAXuJG5Gg9 MuASEtQacjnVbKVoz9WhqR7j0HuNCUtbEl/6U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.101.136 with SMTP id c8mr3417764fao.100.1297620030524; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.83.15 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:00:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net> References: <4D580C00.6060902@comcast.net> <19800.3705.156052.864114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4D582895.7090300@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:00:30 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Rem P Roberti Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Robert Huff , 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 18:01:17 -0000 On 13 February 2011 13:53, Rem P Roberti wrote: > On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Rem Roberti writes: >> >>> =A0This is a new one for me. =A0I decided to do a manual update on my >>> =A08.1 box, starting with csup. =A0Buildworld went fine, as did >>> =A0buildkernel. =A0However, when I tried to install the new kernel >>> =A0installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it >>> =A0could not proceed because the root partition was full. =A0What! =A0I >>> =A0did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. =A0When >>> =A0I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for >>> =A0the root partion, which is around 10G. =A0Anyway, when I rebooted, >>> =A0the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently >>> =A0where I stand. =A0I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and >>> =A0would appreciate any help in fixing this. =A0Of course, I smell a >>> =A0newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out >>> =A0where I went wrong. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Start with this: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0This will give you the largest directories; if any of the= m >> don't look right - investigate further. >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 >> gbytes, of which I use 1.1. =A010 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. =A0When 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 finall= y > allowed me to boot the computer normally. =A0This was an intuitive move, = and > probably not that kosher, but it worked. =A0But where do we go from here? > Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going to be debugging). Build with "makeoptions DEBUG=3D-g" commented out of your kernel config. (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less) --=20 --