Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 00:53:40 -0500 From: Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system full? Message-ID: <3FF50764.5030705@mindcore.net> In-Reply-To: <200401021616.01788.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200401011800.23184.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <200401021544.01169.bastill@adam.com.au> <200401021616.01788.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Malcolm Kay wrote: >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 >non-destructively. > I'm almost positive it doesn't. Partition Magic also needs to understand the underlying filesystem, not just the partition table, as almost any operation aside from expanding a single partition on a disk with only one partition plus unused space would result in actually moving data around.. PM 8.0 (should be the latest I believe) can't touch Linux ReiserFS, so I'd be highly surprised if it understood UFS2. Scott >Malcolm Kay >_______________________________________________ >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" > > >
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