From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 02:10:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C1810656C1 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B4C8FC20 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so681616wwi.31 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:10:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2UTO+1bCv7UWa9oLZIhzDNwo3qNdbjIcAuConrHslCM=; b=Pv44XZ/X8N6zyzHFKDfNkwqYSNI3ceRCTXXwuoW6V0ltIDdNEfPzVVJZbL76kbKeNt E94dtk1//y7E8F3rCXDydb8DfWwzCfr0SD7scXxwzYrrcM5rA3ez50S9Yh5ejpLAyHM0 q+ACcyUMkds0Y/DaTADjC9Vo/ISmgxfjwWCoo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=boWbpCzo/k0C1e7HHcjemD/MpH1/EAwAPdHPiToEFtk6adS4L40hIEwhI8A5INVtl4 Oz7J+XPN4UB0hk0jNaeKJX5ZrHKQjAXdJmcmzV3LLn+TXrCCIBo1f5cy5pP77zXjWU36 Ey5LznFWQ4q5x0rWt5NqwaQKn1OXhq8ETAm7w= Received: by 10.227.142.136 with SMTP id q8mr4271471wbu.95.1278468626225; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e31sm39026102wbe.11.2010.07.06.19.10.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 03:10:02 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100707031002.2fb9421b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2E059D.7050106@qeng-ho.org> References: <20100701212112.GA28138@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4C2D9659.3060208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100702131315.00007c89@unknown> <4C2DF1DA.2020503@qeng-ho.org> <20100702153814.00000aa2@unknown> <4C2E059D.7050106@qeng-ho.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:10:34 -0000 On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:28:29 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > I suspect whoever you were talking to probably has more of a clue > than I do. As a quick data point, I just ran "portsnap fetch update" > while another process did a "df /var; sleep 1" loop and /var > increased by about 30MB at its peak. That was a week after the last > port update. I've no idea how much space a "portsnap fetch extract" > would take and would rather not do one right now. The temporary space is likely used by the "fetch" stage for downloaded patch files. I don't think "update" or "extract" use much storage on /var.