Filesystem full......

[darren kirby]

quoth the darren kirby:
> quoth the Martin Tournoij:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> > > During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get
> > >
> > > /: write failed, filesystem is full
> > > install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
> > > *** Error code 71
> > >
> > > output of df -H gives
> > >
> > > Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > > /dev/ad0s1a    260M    259M    -20M   108%    /
> > > devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> > > /dev/ad0s1g    127G     30G     87G    25%    /home
> > > /dev/ad0s1e    260M     26M    213M    11%    /tmp
> > > /dev/ad0s1f     26G    6.0G     18G    25%    /usr
> > > /dev/ad0s1d    260M    209M     30M    87%    /var
> > > /dev/ad4s1d    387G    119G    237G    33%    /backup
> > > linprocfs      4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> > >
> > > It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few
> > > times before.
> > >
> > > My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to
> > > small?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > /Leslie
> >
> > 256M should be enough.
>
> Might not be. I have a brand new install here of 7.0 Release (I did build a
> second kernel), and df is reporting my '/' is 267M. I have /usr and /var
> (not /tmp) mounted elsewhere. My /tmp is only using 10K right now, and
> /home has nothing but .cshrc et al so if you want a backup kernel you may
> need more than 256M.
>
> Did the install yesterday so there is no cruft yet...

Ahhh....

Disregard this. I copied GENERIC kernel to kernel.good, plus the kernel 
install made kernel.old for total of three kernels. After removing one my '/' 
is  155M

Sorry,
-d
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