Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:21:16 -0500 From: uidzero <uidzero@one-arm.com> To: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Root fs full -> free space always below 0 Message-ID: <40F9984C.7060707@one-arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20040717165826.4c09046f@localhost> References: <200407171644.44473.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <40F97FF9.9010308@one-arm.com> <20040717165826.4c09046f@localhost>
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epilogue wrote: >On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 >uidzero <uidzero@one-arm.com> 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" >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >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" > > Just rebuild the INDEX... ? 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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