/usr full from wrong cvsup install

[Kris Maglione]

Marty Landman wrote:

> Cryptic enough subject?
>
> Here's what I think is my biggest problem at the moment; my fbsd (4.8 
> fm. mini-iso) is a small box having only 3 gb on two hard drives.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't do anything selective - like leave out x11 when 
> I did
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba.
> # cd ../cvsup
> # make install clean
> -------------------------------------------
>
> which resulted in
>
> -------------------------------------------
> fetch: 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/fcpackage.2_1.tar.gz: 
> Host not found
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup.
> -------------------------------------------
>
> which I didn't understand. But I do understand
>
> # df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    516062  35154 439624     7%    /
> /dev/ad1s1f    516062      2 474776     0%    /mnt
> /dev/ad0s1f    170334  51912 104796    33%    /tmp
> /dev/ad1s1e   1032142 935616  13956    99%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    170334   1386 155322     1%    /var
> procfs              4      4      0   100%    /proc
> #
>
> This says that I blew my 1GB /usr, right?
>
> Heh, funny thing is I lost my last installation when trying to clean 
> up a similar problem.
>
> What now?
>
>
> Marty

You still have 104MB left on it, and that has nothing to do with the 
cvsup install not working.
"Host not found"
It's a problem with dns, directly or due to something like incomplete 
routing tables.


What should we tell you besides "get a new (or old, for that matter) 
hard drive"?