Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:47:29 +0000 From: 473219@googlemail.com To: "Servando Garcia" <servando@mac.com> Cc: trustedbsd-discuss@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk is full Message-ID: <e782d7390612310047m6025f3eicc6061cf8dd035ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B99912D4-010F-1000-B5F2-D8E1500E543D-Webmail-10021@mac.com> References: <B99912D4-010F-1000-B5F2-D8E1500E543D-Webmail-10021@mac.com>
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On 31/12/06, Servando Garcia <servando@mac.com> wrote: > Hello List. I am new to FreeBSD. I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 I have truly enjoyed the whole install experience. I have overcome all my install problems save one. > I have KDE 3.5 installed. All is well except I can not save anything. I get an error stating that the disk is full. I am sure this can not be as I have a 40GB harddrive. I am sure it is a setting issue. > _______________________________________________ > trustedbsd-discuss@FreeBSD.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/trustedbsd-discuss > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "trustedbsd-discuss-unsubscribe@FreeBSD.org" > Hi, You're asking on the wrong list really. This list is for discussion of Trusted BSD, which is a set of security extensions targetted at very specialist uses (e.g. government/military systems). You'll get more answers on one of the other lists such as FreeBSD-questions. See: http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html To answer your question, it's difficult without seeing the actual error message you got, but I wonder whether your 40GB disk is split up into partitions which are not of the correct sizes? To begin with, I would tend to go with the Automatic ('A') option in the installer, which will make small partitions for the ones that don't get used much, and a large partition for /usr. You can always create a symlink into a directory in /usr if you find you need more space for some purpose (e.g. logs under /var). You can use the command 'df -h' to show you how big (and how full) each partition is. # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 9.7G 85M 8.8G 1% / /dev/ad0s1e 9.7G 14K 8.9G 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 330G 143G 161G 47% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 9.7G 179M 8.7G 2% /var In this example, I had a huge disk, so I made /, /tmp and /var a few Gigs each. But only /usr really needs much space. 1GB would have been more than enough for the everything except /usr, which is where the ports collection lives, along with all my personal files. So, run "df -h" on your machine and see what's going on. Hope this helps. - Martin.
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