On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:37:29 -0500 uidzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Schuller wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >so during a portupgrade on my laptop the root fs, with soft updates > >enabled, became full. So I removed a bunch of stuff to make a few gigs > >available. I checked and df reported more than a gig of free space - so > >I re-ran portupgrade. > > > >Then I noticed it was full again, with df showing a negative amount of > >free space. > > > >I removed even more stuff, and rebooted just incase there were more > >blocks to be freed. > > > >After the reboot df showed a negative amount of space again. So I > >removed even more data (rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles) and now I had 115 > >meg free df claimed. I then re-ran df in quick succession a few times > >and watched diskspace rapidly decrease to a negative 600 meg or so > >(note: the decrease was perhaps 150 meg/second, so it cannot have been a > >process writing data to disk in the background). > > > >After a couple more reboots and a manual fsck in single user mode I > >still have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). > > > >What to do? > > > Have you tried editing your ports-supfile and commenting out the > "src-all" and the Chinese, German, etc... ports? Just make sure you have > all the other ports uncommented. That will save you a lot of space, > unless you need them. while this 'will' save space, it will 'almost certainly' break any local /usr/ports/INDEX builds you attempt. > Michael > > -- > Michael D. Whities > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.one-arm.com > > -- > > There are four colors of hats to watch for: > Black, White, Grey, and Red. > > The meanings are: > Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
