From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 08:27:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A754E16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7721943D2F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:27:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from carter.pixi.com ([206.127.224.102]:2807 "EHLO carter.pixi.com") by relay.pixi.com with ESMTP id S9463AbUI2I1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:27:02 -1000 Received: from Internal (206.127.224.85) by carter with SMTP; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:27:03 GMT X-Titankey-e_id: <5a28449c-7f62-46a3-ad9c-ac2cd19ca1a0> Received: from vaiosr7k.ozland (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by koa.aloha.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i8T8PvBH028798; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:25:58 -1000 (HST) From: Gary Dunn To: Scot Hetzel In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0409271234412a6ce6@mail.gmail.com> References: <001101c2c252$03ebd850$12387618@q1d0p9> <20030122100925.O3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <790a9fff0409271234412a6ce6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.13 (Preview Release) Date: 28 Sep 2004 22:23:36 -1000 Message-Id: <1096446218.2625.40.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> Mime-Version: 1.0 cc: dwbear75@gmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7->5.0, ran out of space on / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:27:03 -0000 On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:34, Scot Hetzel wrote: > 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 If Scot's advice doesn't do it, as a last resort, delete the kernel you are not using. Only do this if the one you do use is working well. But this size problem could haunt you later on in 5.x anyway. Gary Dunn Honolulu