From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 29 0:55: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B084F37B42C for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e8T7t2958810 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:55:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id JAA29833 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:55:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00510 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:55:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michel) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:55:01 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Space Message-ID: <20000929095501.A474@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200009281759.e8SHx2573258@voyager.bxscience.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:11:19PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jared Chenkin wrote: > > > I'm having some space problems on my FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE box. > > The problem is that the previous administrator did not give > > me alot of space on the root partition, and now its at 95% > > and pwd_mkdb(8) and its frontends complain about lack of space (duh!) > > I've looked through the stuff on the fliesystem, and I was wondering > > if there is anything that I can safely move to another filesystem for > > the time being. I was considering moving /kernel.GENERIC being that > > I have a customized kernel which works quite well :) > > > > Live Large, > > > > Jared Chenkin > > > > (AIM: DevNull24) > > Networked Systems Administrator > > Bronx Science Computing > > > /tmp and /var are good canadates for their own filesystems, if they > aren't that way already. > I recently had a space problem even with /var (while i have a 100 Megs /var). This was trying to install klyx with pkg_add. The dependency stuff tried to install TeTex as a dependency (note that i already have TeTex, but an older version) and this immediately filled up /var/tmp. This points once more that partionning / is a bad decision for a lot of people. I have never encountered any problem with a big flat /. On the machine with its own /tmp /var etc. i am continuously bothered with file system fulls. Moreover i am beginning sick with the ports dependencies which are changing each weak so that you need to have 10 copies of tcl tk and so on, or reinstall everything. The TeTex example is particularly ridiculous. > Tom > Uniserve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message