From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 19:35:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB75816A4CF for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:35:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B53143D5A for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:35:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so3220668rnk for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.171.30 with SMTP id t30mr285168rne; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.75.49 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff0409271234412a6ce6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:34:50 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel To: dwbear75@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20030122100925.O3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <001101c2c252$03ebd850$12387618@q1d0p9> <20030122100925.O3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7->5.0, ran out of space on / X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Scot Hetzel List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:35:02 -0000 On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:11:02 -1000 (HST), Vincent Poy wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > > > I just ran into a problem trying to install the 5.0 world. I thought I > > checked and had 30M free on / before I started this. However, after > > building, the world, building the kernel, installing the kernel, running > > mergemaster -p, I went to install the world and got the error 'out of > > space on /' > > > > I need to find some room, but I'm a little nervous about what I can rm. > > Here is what I'm looking at: > > > > 1) / partition is 79M, 64M are used (I was almost sure there was > > more room than that on / before I satarted). > > 2) /tmp is on it's own partition > > 3) du -h on subdirectories breakdown like this. > > a. 18M /boot > > b. 1.4M /etc > > c. 3.7M /kernel > > d. 3.9M /kern.GENERIC > > e. 6M /modules > > f. 21M /sbin > > g. 2.1M /stand > > > > as you can see that pretty much accounts for it. The rest of the stuff > > is pretty small. > > > > I need to know if I can delete any of this stuff and still successfully > > do a 'make installworld'? > > > /modules can all be deleted since these are now in /boot > /sbin > /stand > should stay > You could also remove /stand, as most of it's functionality has been moved to the the /rescue directory. Also, make sure that Soft-Updates is turned off on your root directory. Because Soft-Updates doesn't immediately free the space on the drive. Scot