Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:59:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <stableuser@larseighner.com> To: Khaled Moussa <khmoussa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system is Full Message-ID: <20071003095941.H11287@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> In-Reply-To: <e71f01dc0710030604l6ea32ed3wb3d8f7aafeb647ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <e71f01dc0710030604l6ea32ed3wb3d8f7aafeb647ce@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Khaled Moussa wrote: > My / slice > got full and I wonder if there might be any way increasing size > through free space on HD? Yes, there is, and I see that someone has already replied calling your attention to growfs. However, there is almost certainly something wrong if / gets full. You should find out what is filling / before you undertake any remedy. Some possible causes: (Recently discussed) dumping to a mount point when in fact the dump device is not mounted. /tmp not a separate file system and something using too much /tmp Running as root, instead of as an ordinary user, or not purging root's old mail (much of which are routine reports which are seldom good for anything after a day or two) In freebsd /home should be a symbolic link to /usr/home. User directories should be in /usr/home. There just should not be much in / to get bigger except /root, and you should not be keeping much of anything in /root.
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