From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 15:23:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B584E37B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4F543FA3 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h2VNMnJP008346; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:22:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E88C469.1020100@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:42:49 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John McClure References: <20030331225342.31155.qmail@web41410.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030331225342.31155.qmail@web41410.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk filling up (was Re: Hell of a time, Cont'd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:23:04 -0000 John McClure wrote: > Firstly, thanks for the help so far. > > My disk is an IBM 27G. The Disklabel config looks like > this: > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part > ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- > ad0s1a / 1024MB UFS1 Y > ad0s1b swap 1024MB SWAP > ad0s1d /var 256MB UFS1+S Y > ad0s1e /tmp 256MB UFS1+S Y > ad0s1f /usr 23545MB UFS1+S Y > > Also, for the "f" partition I make sure that: > newfs -f 2048 -b 16384 > > As far as my installation specs go, I choose "All" to > install everything, including source, which I want, > and I choose the ports collection as well because it > feels me with a sense of divine power, and I also > actually use it. > > As you can see, my /usr mount should have plenty o' > space. What, exactly, was the error message again? You may want to post hardware details as well, because it might be an incompatible disk/controller. The error message is pretty important because it might not be what you think it is. Also ... didn't you say this was on 5.0? If so, -CURRENT may be a better list to post the question to, as this might be a problem specific to -CURRENT. > When I specify mount points manually I enter "/" or > "/usr", not "mnt/usr". During installation, the filesystems are mounted under /mnt ... when installation is complete and you reboot, they'll be /, /usr, /var, etc ... > However, I've only, on most > tries, been specifying the root partition and swap, so > I can control those sizes, and letting the "Auto" > config take over after that. > > Finally, when I create the initial slice, I allocate > the whole space for freebsd, which I want, and I press > "S" in order to ensure that it is bootable. Sounds like you're on track ... could be a hardware problem? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com