On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:38:31PM -0700, Thomas Connolly wrote: > Hello all. I am having a problem installing a very large program. It wants > to extract itself to the /tmp directory but there is not enough space. I > have a 30 Gb hard drive that is only 20% full so there is plenty of free > space to work with. I've tried increasing the size of the file system as > follows: > > umount -f /dev/ad0s1f > growfs -s 4194304 /dev/ad0s1f > > I get an error similar to the following: > file system not grown (137xxxx -> 137xxxx) [not sure of the exact values]
You can't growfs(8) a filesystem unless there's spare space in the partition. To increase the size of the partition on a plain disk drive usually requires a lot of fiddling about with disklabel(8) and probably backup and restore of large chunks of the disk. > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or is there another work around such > as making the program think that /tmp is really somewhere else with more > space? OK. Two work-arounds. i) Find a partition with plenty of spare space (use df(1)). Lets assume that partition is mounted at /foo. Now create /foo/tmp and change the permissions etc. so it can be used as a temporary directory: # mkdir /foo/tmp # chown root:wheel /foo/tmp # chmod 1777 /foo/tmp Now set the TMPDIR environment variable to point to /foo/tmp: # setenv TMPDIR /foo/tmp (tcsh, csh etc.) -or- # TMPDIR=/tmp/foo ; export TMPDIR (sh, bash etc.) and try doing your install again. Chances are it will honour the TMPDIR variable. If it doesn't, move aside your existing /tmp directory and create a symlink to the new one: # cd / # mv tmp tmp.old ln -s foo/tmp tmp You should delete the link and move the old /tmp directory back into place when you're done, as a number of programs tend to keep unix domain sockets under /tmp, and various things will mysteriously not work properly until you do. Either that, or reboot. ii) If you have plenty of swap space mount a mfs on /tmp: # mount_mfs -o rw /dev/ad0s1b /tmp Same caveats about unmounting after use Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message