File system full?
Malcolm Kay
malcolm.kay at internode.on.net
Thu Jan 1 21:46:10 PST 2004
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:44, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote:
> > How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and
> > I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly.
> >
> > Here's my df -h readout:
> >
> > $ df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s3a 1008M 92M 835M 10% /
> > /dev/ad0s2 1020M 19M 1001M 2% /dos
> > /dev/ad0s3g 4.8G 69M 4.3G 2% /home
> > /dev/ad0s3e 3.9G 3.9G -260.5M 107% /usr
> > /dev/ad0s3f 1008M 27M 900M 3% /var
> > /dev/ad0s1 24G 22G 2.9G 88% /nt
> > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
> > /dev/da0s1 61M 61M 632K 99% /umass
> > $
>
> My /home is a link to /usr/home. Isn't yours?
> If it IS (notwithstanding your creation of a /home partition), that
> would explain why you have only 69M in /home but 3.9G in /usr.
One of the suggested setups is to provide home with its own partition.
And even though you don't use it it is not so uncommon.
>
> The two partitions appear to be adjacent. If they are, Partition Magic
> (or similar) could merge those two partitions non-destructively, and
> your problem would be solved.
This sounds like a disaster --- partition magic works with MS
partitions or in FBSD terms slices -- to the best I my knowledge it does
not know about BSD style partitions.
I'd also be very surprised if it is able to merge BSD file systems
non-destructively.
Malcolm Kay
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