disk is full
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Sun Dec 31 01:13:21 PST 2006
On 31/12/06, Servando Garcia <servando at mac.com> wrote:
> Hello List. I am new to FreeBSD. I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 I have truly enjoyed the whole install experience. I have overcome all my install problems save one.
> I have KDE 3.5 installed. All is well except I can not save anything. I get an error stating that the disk is full. I am sure this can not be as I have a 40GB harddrive. I am sure it is a setting issue.
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Hi,
You're asking on the wrong list really. This list is for discussion
of Trusted BSD, which is a set of security extensions targetted at
very specialist uses (e.g. government/military systems).
You'll get more answers on one of the other lists such as FreeBSD-questions.
See:
http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html
To answer your question, it's difficult without seeing the actual
error message you got, but I wonder whether your 40GB disk is split up
into partitions which are not of the correct sizes? To begin with, I
would tend to go with the Automatic ('A') option in the installer,
which will make small partitions for the ones that don't get used
much, and a large partition for /usr. You can always create a symlink
into a directory in /usr if you find you need more space for some
purpose (e.g. logs under /var).
You can use the command 'df -h' to show you how big (and how full)
each partition is.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 9.7G 85M 8.8G 1% /
/dev/ad0s1e 9.7G 14K 8.9G 0% /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 330G 143G 161G 47% /usr
/dev/ad0s1d 9.7G 179M 8.7G 2% /var
In this example, I had a huge disk, so I made /, /tmp and /var a few
Gigs each. But only /usr really needs much space. 1GB would have
been more than enough for the everything except /usr, which is where
the ports collection lives, along with all my personal files. So, run
"df -h" on your machine and see what's going on.
Hope this helps.
- Martin.
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