From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 16:08:47 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 91E021065674 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from hawk.thalamus.net (hawk.thalamus.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0342A8FC15 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5143217ED6; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:08:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thalamus.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.214 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.214 tagged_above=-999 required=4.2 tests=[AWL=-1.055, HELO_LH_HOME=3.169, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1] Received: from hawk.thalamus.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hawk.thalamus.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LMQt6CIAYjdi; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lesbsdpc01.homenet.home (c-195-216-040-164.cust.thalamus.net [195.216.40.164]) by hawk.thalamus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1334D218077; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <480CBC07.6090104@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:08:39 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080325) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <480CB66B.4050705@eskk.nu> <20080421115948.31ac0a4a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080421115948.31ac0a4a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 16:08:47 -0000 Bill Moran skrev: > 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? > Thank you :-) I removed kernel.old and it gave space to do what I wanted. A follow up question: Is there a utility like gparted for Linux, that can resize bsd slices? /Leslie