From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 15:27:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3C016A41B for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:27:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1162F13C46A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:27:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id 347AD16B620; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:00:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.94]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BB1F16B623; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:00:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:59:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:59:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Khaled Moussa In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20071003095941.H11287@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=10.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system is Full X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:27:14 -0000 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.