Root fs full -> free space always below 0

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Peter Schuller wrote:

>Hello,
>
>so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates enabled, 
>became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs available. I 
>checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so I re-ran 
>portupgrade.
>
>Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of free 
>space.
>
>I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more blocks to 
>be freed.
>
>After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I removed even 
>more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 meg free df 
>claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times and watched 
>diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so (note: the decrease 
>was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a process writing data to 
>disk in the background).
>
>After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I still have 
>the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels).
>
>What to do?
>
Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the 
"src-all" and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have 
all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, 
unless you need them.

Michael

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