Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:16:01 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au>, Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system full? Message-ID: <200401021616.01788.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200401021544.01169.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <200401011800.23184.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <200401021544.01169.bastill@adam.com.au>
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: > > How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and > > I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. > > > > Here's my df -h readout: > > > > $ df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s3a 1008M 92M 835M 10% / > > /dev/ad0s2 1020M 19M 1001M 2% /dos > > /dev/ad0s3g 4.8G 69M 4.3G 2% /home > > /dev/ad0s3e 3.9G 3.9G -260.5M 107% /usr > > /dev/ad0s3f 1008M 27M 900M 3% /var > > /dev/ad0s1 24G 22G 2.9G 88% /nt > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > /dev/da0s1 61M 61M 632K 99% /umass > > $ > > My /home is a link to /usr/home. Isn't yours? > If it IS (notwithstanding your creation of a /home partition), that > would explain why you have only 69M in /home but 3.9G in /usr. One of the suggested setups is to provide home with its own partition. And even though you don't use it it is not so uncommon. > > The two partitions appear to be adjacent. If they are, Partition Magic > (or similar) could merge those two partitions non-destructively, and > your problem would be solved. This sounds like a disaster --- partition magic works with MS partitions or in FBSD terms slices -- to the best I my knowledge it does not know about BSD style partitions. I'd also be very surprised if it is able to merge BSD file systems=20 non-destructively. Malcolm Kay
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