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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: root partition full on sysinstall Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 11:15:02 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3373CC16.7A7A@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5kije3$7ke$2@news9.gte.net> <336D27CA.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5mupgs.1mq.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <slrn5n6pbj.sk4.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: pavanas@smalt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40658 pavanas abludo incusus wrote: [snip] > on a running system i was attempting with /stand/sysinstall to add the > Linux lib pkg (from memory may not be exact name) and i got the message > file system full. oops. i checked with `df' and saw `/ Capacity 109%'. > that was that. does anyone know why? it does become a little old to keep > re-doing the install. the option choice was /tmp/usr. > Have you got /var as a separate partition or on you root (/) partition? Things might be going into /var/tmp that are filling up root! I normally put /var on the /usr partition if I don't want a separate /var partition. You can do this via- # shutdown now ..... # cd / # tar cf - var | (cd /usr; tar xf -) # rm -r var # ln -s /usr/var # reboot Tony