From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 20:58:54 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 0B85316A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B3843D2F for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:58:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from epilogue@allstream.net) Received: from localhost (mon-pq54-132.dial.allstream.net [216.123.140.132]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with SMTP id 6615D5E29; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:58:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:58:26 -0400 From: epilogue To: uidzero Message-Id: <20040717165826.4c09046f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <40F97FF9.9010308@one-arm.com> References: <200407171644.44473.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <40F97FF9.9010308@one-arm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Peter Schuller cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Root fs full -> free space always below 0 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, 17 Jul 2004 20:58:54 -0000 On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 uidzero wrote: > 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. while this 'will' save space, it will 'almost certainly' break any local /usr/ports/INDEX builds you attempt. > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >