From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 0:33:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 195C837B423 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11231 invoked by uid 0); 29 Aug 2000 07:33:36 -0000 Received: from client68-76.hispeed.ch (HELO aldrin) (62.2.68.76) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 29 Aug 2000 07:33:36 -0000 Message-ID: <000701c0118b$cf4780f0$4c44023e@aldrin> From: "locus" To: Subject: / is full while updating Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:36:13 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, i just tried to update my box from 4.0R to 4.1S. While doing 'make installworld' my root partition got out of space (i dont have many non-system files in my root partition, only about 3-4MB at most). Maybe you think, why i only have a 50MB root partition. Well i let the installation program allocate the space for the partitions automaticly ( i thought they have to know how big a root partition has to be :) ). Well the only solution i can think of at the moment is to buy a new hard disk and make a bigger root partition. Or are there any other ways to get enough free space to finish updateing my system? If not...whats the best way to get my root partition to an other disk? So that i can boot of it? Would installing the bsd boot loader on the new disk, and then cp the root to the other disk work? /dev/ad0s1a 51M 50M -3.7M 108% / /dev/ad0s1f 3.9G 1.1G 2.5G 30% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 20M 3.0M 16M 16% /var procfs 4.1K 4.1K 0B 100% /proc /dev/ad2s1e 9.9G 7.4G 1.7G 81% /usr/home/smb thanks, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message