From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 17 18:35:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC3B37B41D for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from attbi.com ([12.254.218.32]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011218023512.YZLI10701.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@attbi.com>; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:35:12 +0000 Message-ID: <3C1EAB1E.7C65516C@attbi.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:34:06 -0700 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Installworld fills up / ...help! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >You probably have a small / and are getting bit by softupdates. That's correct. I was very new to FreeBSD when I first setup my home PC and not knowing any better, chose the 'A' option when setting up my slices. A couple of months ago, I was down for a week because / got too full and I couldn't receive email. The only way I could figure out to free up some space was to delete modules.old and kernel.old ( I was really reluctant to do the latter) >Run 'sync' a lot while the install is running, Do you mean to start where I left off by dropping to single user, trying "make installworld" again and then logging into another terminal and running 'sync' ...? >or remount / without softupdates. This sounds like a better approach but how do I do it? After running "make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL", I always drop to single user mode like this before doing the "make installworld": # shutdown now # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # swapon -a Thanks Joe Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Joe Warner wrote: > > > I was going to post this to -questions but this list seemed > > more appropriate after searching the archives. If I'm in > > error, please let me know and I'll redirect it to -questions. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE on my home PC. > > Yesterday, I did the usual cvsrun to download the source > > for the 4.4-STABLE branch and began my monthly > > "make buildworld". I have done this many times without > > a problem. Before I started, my / slice was at 89% > > capacity but when I dropped to single user mode and > > started the "make installworld", I got a couple of "stop" > > errors saying that / was full. > > You probably have a small / and are getting bit by softupdates. Run 'sync' > a lot while the install is running, or remount / without softupdates. > > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message