From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 22:18:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21980 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 22:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21966 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 22:17:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA10035; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:47:28 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA01525; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:47:28 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981130164727.E1447@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:47:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alex Davidson , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: How to Resize Disk References: <36620440.F58C5925@idcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36620440.F58C5925@idcomm.com>; from Alex Davidson on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 07:34:40PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 29 November 1998 at 19:34:40 -0700, Alex Davidson wrote: > I am fairly new to FreeBSD and have installed 2.2.7 on a 1GB drive along > with XFree86 and KDE (+ it's utils, games etc.) and Netscape Communicator > 4.05. > > Having finally received my Complete FreeBSD book I started messing around a > little and decided to add me as a real user instead of using root. In the > process I ran out of disk space! That was quick! > > When I do df it says that / is at 109% Capacity, /usr is at 49%, /var is at > 7%, /proc is at 100% and /mnt is at 74% This is why the book recommends to have only two partitions. What do you have mounted on /mnt? That's normally used for temporary mounts. > I am having problems now when I receive email - obviously it really > is out of space - and Netscape closes itself when I try and clean > out my Trash folder. > > Is there a command (I have not found) that will allow me to resize the > filesystem? Not online. > What about a way to clean up the installation? Might there be > some temp files somewhere I can delete? Maybe, especially in the root file system. Take a look in /tmp. You could also go looking for .core files: # find . -name "*.core" Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message