From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 19:33:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8827D16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:33:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0929243D1F for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp109-47.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.109.47])hBD3X0dj016483; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:03:00 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: Jeff LaMarche , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:02:59 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <788426CA-2D15-11D8-9865-000A95A04BD8@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200312131402.59736.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: growfs on / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:33:03 -0000 On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > Hey all... > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by > using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room > free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be > affecting system use except that I can't add new users. > > Here's what I look like now: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127682 -9010 108% / I should have thought that 125Mb or so should have been ample for / when /tmp, /var and /usr have there own partitions. Your mail prompted me to look at what I have under / and was somewhat surprised to find about 90Mb. But when I examined this I found about 40Mb= =20 was pure junk -- things like temproot, modules.old and etc.old1 left over= from=20 a system update and a core file or two. Have you been running X applications (especially browsers) as root ---- a= =20 practice frowned upon, mostly I guess, because it can swallow large gulps= of=20 space on /. I would certainly look at getting the total file size down in / rather th= an=20 trying to grow it. Malcolm