Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-03-01 Thread tetrahedra
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Janne Johansson wrote: Is /var a filesystem of its own? Otherwise it could be /var/tmp or some other place under /var which is used for unpacking packages. Yes, /var is on its own filesystem, with 10.4G available.

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-03-01 Thread tetrahedra
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 05:17:15PM +, James Cook wrote: > This makes little sense to me. Why should deleting a 20MB file on a > filesystem with >700MB free space be sufficient for the install to go > through? Especially when the install obviously doesn't need that much space > on the

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-28 Thread Janne Johansson
Den sön 28 feb. 2021 kl 14:51 skrev : > I deleted the file and `pkg_add libreoffice` worked as expected. > Post-install I still have 746MB free in /, according to `df -h`. > > This makes little sense to me. Why should deleting a 20MB file on a > filesystem with >700MB free space be sufficient for

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-28 Thread tetrahedra
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:52:39PM +, James Cook wrote: Sorry, you're right, pkg_add can add files to /. But generally those will be quite small (/etc/make2fs.conf sounds like a configuration file). How big is your root partition, and how much space is used? For example mine is like this

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-28 Thread tetrahedra
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:52:39PM +, James Cook wrote: If you have a lot more space used, you could try to figure out what's using it. My go-to command is "du -xah /|sort -h|less" That's a neat command, and amazingly enough it did the trick: there was a 20MB file, INS@yjf(...) located in

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread tetrahedra
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 03:27:41PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: Its more likely that you accidentaly used dd to write to a usb stick and instead wrote to a file in /dev. Thats the only way I've ever had this problem. You're right -- I had written a file to /dev. After deleting it, the

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread tetrahedra
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 08:27:07PM +, James Cook wrote: Something's strange about your setup. The installer normally creates a separate partition for /usr and maybe /usr/local. If you're using pkg_add, then packages go in /usr/local, so they shouldn't end up on your root partition. If your

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:21:45PM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 08:27:07PM +, James Cook wrote: > > Something's strange about your setup. The installer normally creates a > > separate partition for /usr and maybe /usr/local. If you're using > > pkg_add, then

Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread tetrahedra
When installing OpenBSD, the default partition layout only allocates 1GB to / ... most of the disk space is allocated to /home. Once you start installing packages, / quickly grows beyond 1GB, and it looks like even some large packages exceed the available space on their own: Error:

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread James Cook
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:21:45PM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 08:27:07PM +, James Cook wrote: > > Something's strange about your setup. The installer normally creates a > > separate partition for /usr and maybe /usr/local. If you're using > > pkg_add, then

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 03:32:44PM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > When installing OpenBSD, the default partition layout only allocates 1GB to > / ... most of the disk space is allocated to /home. > > Once you start installing packages, / quickly grows beyond 1GB, and it looks > like

Re: Default partitions allocate only 1GB to /

2021-02-27 Thread James Cook
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 03:32:44PM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > When installing OpenBSD, the default partition layout only allocates 1GB to > / ... most of the disk space is allocated to /home. > > Once you start installing packages, / quickly grows beyond 1GB, and it looks > like