Stuck

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 13 February 2011 13:53, Rem P Roberti <remegius at 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)

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