Stuck

[Chip Camden]

Quoth illoai at gmail.com on Sunday, 13 February 2011:
> On 13 February 2011 13:53, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote:
> >>
> >> Rem Roberti writes:
> >>
> >>>  This is a new one for me.  I decided to do a manual update on my
> >>>  8.1 box, starting with csup.  Buildworld went fine, as did
> >>>  buildkernel.  However, when I tried to install the new kernel
> >>>  installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it
> >>>  could not proceed because the root partition was full.  What!  I
> >>>  did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded.  When
> >>>  I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for
> >>>  the root partion, which is around 10G.  Anyway, when I rebooted,
> >>>  the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently
> >>>  where I stand.  I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and
> >>>  would appreciate any help in fixing this.  Of course, I smell a
> >>>  newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out
> >>>  where I went wrong.
> >>
> >>        Start with this:
> >>
> >>        du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30
> >>
> >>        This will give you the largest directories; if any of them
> >> don't look right - investigate further.
> >>        (For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2
> >> gbytes, of which I use 1.1.  10 gbytes is a lot of space
> >
> > I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with
> > another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for
> > root.  When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very
> > large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which finally
> > allowed me to boot the computer normally.  This was an intuitive move, and
> > probably not that kosher, but it worked.  But where do we go from here?
> >
> 
> Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going
> to be debugging).
> 
> Build with "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" commented out
> of your kernel config.
> 
> (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less)
> 

I have INSTALL_NODEBUG=yes in my make.conf, which someone on this list
advised.  Apparently that still builds the symbols but doesn't install
them in /boot/kernel, saving a ton of space.  This will prevent you
running into this same problem the next time you build.

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Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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