> > 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% / > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 1254 236106 1% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1g 18359694 4955608 11935312 29% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 8400 228960 4% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > I understand the process in general, but am a little afraid of hosing > the box in the process; most of the stuff I've seen assumes a greater > familiarity with tools like disklabel than I have. Does anyone know of > a step-by-step tutorial or article on doing this? If not, would anyone > be so kind as to give me a high-level breakdown? > > Alternatively, if anyone knows how I can free up some space in / > perhaps by moving something to another slice, I'd be open to that > possibility.
That is what your first choice should be. Us du(1) to find out which directories are taking up the space. cd / du -sk * will give you a useful list. It may be possible to move one or more of them to another slice and make a soft link to it. But, most of the things in root have to be there instead of somewhere else. You already have the biggies somewhere else (/tmp, /usr, /var). Some of the remaining directories may have extra junk left over from some stuff that could well be deleted. A frequent culprit is home directories for root accounts. If you are doing a bunch of development, they can accumulate a lot of junk. I wouldn't even consider growfs until after cleaning stuff up and would not be confidant of using it on root anyway. ////jerry > > Thanks in advance > Jeff LaMarche > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
