On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote: > Hey all... > > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice / > > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by > using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room > free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be > affecting system use except that I can't add new users. > > Here's what I look like now: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127682 -9010 108% /
I should have thought that 125Mb or so should have been ample for / when /tmp, /var and /usr have there own partitions. Your mail prompted me to look at what I have under / and was somewhat surprised to find about 90Mb. But when I examined this I found about 40Mb was pure junk -- things like temproot, modules.old and etc.old1 left over from a system update and a core file or two. Have you been running X applications (especially browsers) as root ---- a practice frowned upon, mostly I guess, because it can swallow large gulps of space on /. I would certainly look at getting the total file size down in / rather than trying to grow it. Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"