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)
Getting rid of all those .symbols files made a big difference. Where do
I locate the kernel config file?
Rem
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