Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:55:48 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question on Resizing / Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112031540200.59936-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011203220058.85392.qmail@web10008.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tom Kersten wrote: > Everyone, > > Here is the information you asked for. I have /var & > /tmp symlinked to their user counterparts. I had used > X as root a couple times before...not knowing any > better...but have since stopped the habit and I think > I have removed all of the files related to it in the > /root directory. My / slice is approximately 45mb., is > this enough room? I have been close to 100% twice > now...once because of using X as root, and now I am > close again....any ideas on how I can fix it, or do I > need to do a clean install?? Any advice is much > appreciated. Here is the outputs and contents of the > system as of now: > ... > > thomas> df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity > Mounted on > /dev/ad0s4a 44623 39062 1992 95% / > /dev/ad0s4e 34880356 5057536 27032392 16% /usr > /dev/ad0s2 4177376 2071424 2105952 50% > /win1 > /dev/ad0s3 11507352 5902976 5604376 51% > /win2 > procfs 4 4 0 100% > /proc > You can run swapinfo to see how large your swap partition is. If it's larger than it needs to be, and is continguous to your /, that's an interesting solution. But 40MB is too small for / (even assuming /var is separate or successfully symlinked elsewhere). On 4.x--and not the most recent--I have approximately this: /sbin 10MB /bin 4MB /etc 1MB /stand 1MB /modules 4MB Plus I've got the usual three kernels at, say, 4MB each-- kernel.GENERIC, kernel, kernel.old. A new kernel build would back up the /modules directory. That's close to 40MB right there and no room to play. You could look around the directories to see if you downloaded something to /bin or /sbin or /etc in error; but basically you want all the files in these directories, and you don't want them in /usr, unavailable on boot. You might delete old kernels or save them in /usr somewhere; you can probably delete some modules you don't need; but this is just a stop-gap measure. You'd have to build new kernels without building modules to prevent the / partition filling up again. / should be 100MB or so. The recognition that you need to reinstall (or use growfs on the / file system) is an opportunity to experiment. While you're at it, give /var 80MB or even 100 in a separate partition, too. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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