growfs on /

[Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:02:59 +1030
Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> probably wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:08, Jeff LaMarche wrote:
> > Hey all...
> >
> > Have FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, and I've run out of space on the slice /
> >
> > I really want to avoid having to backup and reformat, or doing anything
> > that's super-time-intensive - from reading various posts and blogs
> > related to FreeBSD, it appears to me that I can resolve my issue by
> > using growfs - the next slice after / is /tmp which has plenty of room
> > free, and can afford to be reduced by a little. It doesn't seem to be
> > affecting system use except that I can't add new users.
> >
> > Here's what I look like now:
> >
> > Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s1a    128990  127682    -9010   108%    /
> 
> I should have thought that 125Mb or so should have been ample for / when
> /tmp, /var and /usr have there own partitions.
> 
> Your mail prompted me to look at what I have under / and was somewhat
> surprised to find about 90Mb. But when I examined this I found about 40Mb 
> was pure junk -- things like temproot, modules.old and etc.old1 left over from 
> a system update and a core file or two.
> 
> Have you been running X applications (especially browsers) as root ---- a 
> practice frowned upon, mostly I guess, because it can swallow large gulps of 
> space on /.

Not because of this, but because of security reasons. I believe something like

# du -hx -d 1 /

will help you find out what things use up the space.

> I would certainly look at getting the total file size down in / rather than 
> trying to grow it.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
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