Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:30:21 -0500 From: Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil To: mj@isy.liu.se Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: qcad port install failed. Now what? Message-ID: <856532CB07BED3118FE300204840E28A0110765A@vexwncc02.hurlburt.af.mil>
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Micke, Thanks. You gave me exactly what I was looking for... a direction. Can I safely remove everything in my /usr/tmp directory? Is it possible to expand my FBSD partition from within FBSD? Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Micke Josefsson [SMTP:mj@isy.liu.se] > Sent: Tuesday, 01 August, 2000 0747 > To: Mark A. Hummel > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: qcad port install failed. Now what? > > > On 01-Aug-00 Mark A. Hummel wrote: > > I made some progress on the qcad port. I downloaded the new port from > > the BSD site and did a make install. Everything seems to go well > > although a bit slow until I realized that the tar ball was over 4 megs > > compressed. Anyway, it finally errored out. > > > > From the attached text file. It looks to me like I don't have enough > > disk space so, since I'm a newbie, I did some research. I hit the book > > and keyword searches of the man pages. I found df! How can a slice of > > my drive be more than 100%? > > > > The question is what should I do next? I assume I either need to free > > up some disk space or expand one or more of my slices. > > > > Mark > > Yep! You are short of space all right. The system reserves (when > newfs-ing) > some 8% of the disk capacity for use by root and system processes so that > tha system will keep on going even though the disk is full. Normal users > can not add anything. > > Freeing up space is the easiest - if you can:) > > Or get another disk (of sufficient size) and put your entire /usr/home on > that one. vinum(8) can also be of use. > > I also see your / is full. My guess is that /tmp is full. You could > symlink > (ln(1) -s) /tmp to /usr/tmp, this will not save you any space but will > stop > the system from filling up /tmp (as it will now go to /usr/tmp instead) > > du(1) with -s and/or -x options are also useful for analyzing what is up. > > /M > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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