From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 13:33:40 2004 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 8217D16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:33:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from indec-ntserver.indec.com.au (indecc.onsite.telstra.net [165.228.230.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D1843D1D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron.joordens@indec.com.au) Received: by INDEC-NTSERVER with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:51:57 +1100 Message-ID: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377211FB@INDEC-NTSERVER> From: Ron Joordens To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:51:56 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: /root file system full 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: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:33:40 -0000 Good Morning, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find an answer in the handbook or by searching through the extensive resources available on the net. Great documentaion! This is the first time I have needed to ask a question. My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem, what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Any thoughts? For background information: The / filesystem is the suggested default of 128mb. The handbook says that root is generally about 40mb of data and that 100mb should be enough to allow for future expansion needs, so 128mb should be adequate. During installation I installed everything, sources, ports, documentation, etc. I have CVSuped source to RELENG_4_9. I have CVSuped ports. I have recompiled the kernel 3 or 4 times. I have redirected the /tmp directory to /usr/tmp (these locations are from memory but you get the idea) I got a bit carried away installing ports during installation (a kid in a candy store?) and currently have about 206 installed. I have been updating ports recently using portupgrade with the recursive switches -rR. At the time the first filesystem full error message was seen I was portupgrading arts -Rr which was upgrading a lot of other ports as well. That process stopped with an error message stating that a conflict between xfmail and qt existed and that qt could not be upgraded untill xfmail was deinstalled so there may be a lot of working data still on the system. Would that be on root? Thanks for your help, Ron Joordens Melbourne, Australia