From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 15:59:45 2008 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 E165B106566B for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:59:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5228FC13 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:59:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2763DEBC48; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:59:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:59:48 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Leslie Jensen Message-Id: <20080421115948.31ac0a4a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu> References: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Filesystem full...... 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: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:59:46 -0000 In response to Leslie Jensen : > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device > *** Error code 71 > > output of df -H gives > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 260M 259M -20M 108% / > devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1g 127G 30G 87G 25% /home > /dev/ad0s1e 260M 26M 213M 11% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 26G 6.0G 18G 25% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 260M 209M 30M 87% /var > /dev/ad4s1d 387G 119G 237G 33% /backup > linprocfs 4.1k 4.1k 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc > > It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few > times before. > > My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small? Your / is too small for modern version of FreeBSD. However, you probably can get around this. My / partition on a 7.X system is only 160M, so there's probably some stuff you can clean out to make room. Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up some space if removed? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com