/tmp full (newbie)

[gaf]

Jez Hancock wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:57:31PM +0100, gaf wrote:
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>>Jez Hancock wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:26:24PM +0100, gaf wrote:
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>>>>Today I tried to install a new browser and I got the information that my 
>>>>filesystem is full.  When I tried to start KDE I got the message that 
>>>>/tmp is full. I would really apprecite some help. What to do?? Can I 
>>>>give you some other info and if so what and how???
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>>>Yes please - paste the output from df and mount.
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>>df -h gave:
>>Filesystem         size    used  avail capacity       mounted on
>>/dev/ad1s1a       3,9G     3,8G  -234,3M 106%         /
>>devfs             1,0K     1,0K  0B      100%         /dev
>>/dev/ad1s1d       37G      22M   34G     0%           /home
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>It might be best if you reinstalled the OS from scratch and ensure you
>assign the disk space more practically.  Presently you have a massive
>proportion of your disk space assigned to /home and only a small
>proportion assigned to / - you can get away with a /home partition of
>only 1Gb, but a tiny / partition will make using the OS difficult.
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>A more suitable fs layout might be:
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>Filesystem  Size	Mounted on
>/dev/ad1s1a	500MB	/
>/dev/ad1s1e	500MB	/tmp
>/dev/ad1s1f	10-20GB	/usr
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>with the remaining space going to /var and /home.  
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>You don't have to create separate partitions for each mount point, but
>it speeds things up a little and saves disk space being filled up and
>causing a denial of service...
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>Better bet if you don't feel confident with partitioning might be to let
>the installer choose the partition sizes for you initially - select 'a' in the
>fdisk screen (iirc) and the installer automatically selects the partition sizes
>it thinks are best given the size of the hdd.
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>At the end of the day the best way to learn is to install, reinstall,
>reinstall and reinstall again :P
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>As always read, reread, etc the handbook section on partitioning:
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>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
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>Good luck!
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Thank you for answering. I´d hoped not to reinstall but..... 
Partitioning is no problem, I´ve installed all versions from 4.8 to5.2  
on my old computer just for training and trying.
Thanks again
gaf