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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Out of disk space [FreeBSD] Date: 13 Jan 1994 13:20:17 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2h46tv$t03@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1994Jan13.040919.13276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <1994Jan13.040919.13276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, Joseph Clancy <jclancy@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote: [ stuff deleted ] >Now I'm left with only ~20 mb. Of course, I won't have room for the extracted >files, because they're compressed, right? What sould I do: > >1) Try to load the bin_tgz files onto the DOS partition and mount it as a >pcfs? (I tried but I don't know how to) You could do that. In fact, the command would involve the instructions from the FAQ for mounting a DOS HD onto a FreeBSD filesystem. >2) Figure out a way to extract the files but delete them as it goes, thus >leaving room for the system? > This would be reasonable as well, as long as you have copies of the files that you can recover from. Remember, if you only have one copy of a file, it will be destroyed before you can make a second copy. I wrote a procedure for the FAQ that tells how to get around a problem with "too many files open". It is in the second section (I think) and talks about using a for loop in the shell. You can delete the files as you finish with them (after the cat in the body of the loop) and reclaim the space almost immediately. >Your help is appreciated. > >Joseph > > >-- >Joseph Clancy / jclancy@nyx.cs.du.edu OR ui842@freenet.victoria.bc.ca -- TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC Applications Programming Branch US Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, NE burgessd@j64.stratcom.af.mil