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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!feed1.news.erols.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!pavanas From: pavanas@nomina.ccia.com (pavanas abludo incusus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: root partition full on sysinstall Date: 12 May 1997 19:57:31 GMT Organization: Aragorn Asteria Lines: 53 Message-ID: <slrn5netia.86s.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> References: <5kije3$7ke$2@news9.gte.net> <336D27CA.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5mupgs.1mq.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <slrn5n6pbj.sk4.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <3373CC16.7A7A@OntheNet.com.au> Reply-To: pavanas@smalt.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40766 On Sat, 10 May 1997 11:15:02 +1000, Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> mused and hath written: >pavanas abludo incusus wrote: > >[snip] >> on a running system i was attempting with /stand/sysinstall to add the >> Linux lib pkg (from memory may not be exact name) and i got the message >> file system full. oops. i checked with `df' and saw `/ Capacity 109%'. >> that was that. does anyone know why? it does become a little old to keep >> re-doing the install. the option choice was /tmp/usr. >> correction that should read /usr/tmp > >Have you got /var as a separate partition or on you root (/) partition? >Things might be going into /var/tmp that are filling up root! > when i tried /var/tmp in the option choice that did not work well either, in the end i redid everything (the 18th install) selected /usr/tmp on the option screen and it worked. next to compile a kernel to get pppd working. for whatever reason there was no predictability to whether or not /stand/sysinstall would work consistently. to date i have still been unable to add a few pkg. >I normally put /var on the /usr partition if I don't want a separate >/var partition. You can do this via- > i have / 50MB /usr 475MB /usr/local/lib 150MB /var 150MB /home 40MB ># shutdown now >..... ># cd / ># tar cf - var | (cd /usr; tar xf -) ># rm -r var ># ln -s /usr/var ># reboot > >Tony thanks for your response. -- IHS pavanas The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame of blame. Hobbs