Filesystem full......

[Martin Tournoij]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:44:43PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> 
> During "make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC" I get
> 
> /: write failed, filesystem is full
> install: /boot/kernel/wlan_tkip.ko.symbols: No space left on device
> *** Error code 71
> 
> output of df -H gives
> 
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    260M    259M    -20M   108%    /
> devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1g    127G     30G     87G    25%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1e    260M     26M    213M    11%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1f     26G    6.0G     18G    25%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d    260M    209M     30M    87%    /var
> /dev/ad4s1d    387G    119G    237G    33%    /backup
> linprocfs      4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> 
> It's a system I've had for a few years, and it has been upgreded a few 
> times before.
> 
> My question is can I get around this or have I made my / slice to small?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Leslie

256M should be enough.

You probably have some "junk" on the root filesystem, you may want to
check /boot/kernel.old and /root

You can use du -hxd1 to check the sizes of directories, and see which
are taking up so much space.

Regards,
Martin Tournoij