Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 From: uidzero <uidzero@one-arm.com> To: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root fs full -> free space always below 0 Message-ID: <40F97FF9.9010308@one-arm.com> In-Reply-To: <200407171644.44473.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> References: <200407171644.44473.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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Peter Schuller wrote: >Hello, > >so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, >became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I >checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran >portupgrade. > >Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free >space. > >I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to >be freed. > >After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even >more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df >claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched >diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease >was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to >disk in the background). > >After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have >the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). > >What to do? > Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the "src-all" and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, unless you need them. Michael -- Michael D. Whities uidzero@one-arm.com http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim.
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