On 13 February 2011 13:53, Rem P Roberti <remeg...@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) -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
