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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:44:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Brad W <bradley_watts@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Transfer disk space form /usr to root partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102130239210.64423-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <F142W7MnO1AiDLAuh1w0000a669@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Brad W wrote:

> First of all, is this possible? I have exceeded all available space on my 
> root partition.
> 
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s2a    51M    51M  -4.0M   109%    /
> /dev/ad0s2f   4.6G   1.8G   2.4G    42%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s2e    20M   9.7M   9.0M    52%    /var
> procfs        4.1K   4.1K     0B   100%    /proc

yes, this is entirely possible.  FreeBSD allocates some extra space to
protect you from this situation.

To clean up the problem, remove extra files from /tmp and /root.

> I should have made my root partition larger when I initially installed but, 
> ahh... too late now. Is there any valuable documentation on doing this and 
> if so where?

51MB should be adequate for any properly-administered box.  I've got a
few machines running with 20 or 30 MB / partitions and have never run
into problems.

Most likely you've accumulated a bunch of files in /root or /tmp
which has over-filled your / partition.  On my systems, /root is a
symlink to /home/root, and /tmp is a symlink to /usr/tmp, which means 
that they'll always have enough room.

--
Matt Emmerton



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