Root fs full -> free space always below 0

[uidzero]

epilogue wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500
>uidzero <uidzero at one-arm.com> wrote:
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>>Peter Schuller wrote:
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>>>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?
>>>
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>>>
>>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.
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>while this 'will' save space, it will 'almost certainly' break any local
>/usr/ports/INDEX builds you attempt.
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>>Michael
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Just rebuild the INDEX... ?

Michael


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