Re: failed X11 install, now what?

From: Alex de Kruijff (freebsd_at_akruijff.dds.nl)
Date: 11/15/03

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    Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 20:06:50 +0100
To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>

    On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
    > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
    > > This is what I found on the screen this morning after letting
    > >
    > > make all install clean
    >
    > Did you execute this in /usr/ports? Its better to select only the port
    > you like to have.
    >
    > > run all night:
    > >
    > > /usr: write failed, file system is full
    > > /usr/bin/tar: xc/fonts/util/KOI8-R.TXT: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
    > > /usr/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
    > > /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
    > > *** Error code 1
    > >
    > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable.
    > > *** Error code 1
    > >
    > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4.
    > > #
    > >
    > > ............................
    > >
    > > # df
    > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
    > > /dev/ad0s1a 128990 35170 83502 30% /
    > > /dev/ad0s1f 257998 284 237076 0% /tmp
    > > /dev/ad1s1e 2030062 2015906 -148248 108% /usr
    > > /dev/ad0s1e 257998 2762 234598 1% /var
    > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
    >
    > Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output.
    >
    > > Which brings to mind a couple questions.
    > >
    > > 1. ad1 is a 2GB ide slaved to ad0 which is only 1GB - what must I do
    > > immediately to clear space on ad1 or is nothing impacted with the disk
    > > being over full?
    >
    > A port first fetches the sources it need and places these in
    > /usr/ports/distfiles/. You could empty this with:
    > rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
    >
    > You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount
    > them from there. As a added bonus, you then can let the other machine do
    > most of the building during updates of the main system.
    >
    > You could also move /usr/ports/ to this machine. You do need to edit the
    > working directory in /etc/make.conf (copy it from /etc/defaults/ if it
    > doesn't exist) becuase you don't want to mount the working directory.
    >
    > >
    > > 2. just how much space should I need? I know that's a loaded question, but
    > > I have another 2.5GB ide I could slave to the secondary port off the cdrom,
    > > or swap some disks around with other networks or; hard to plan unless I can
    > > make guesstimates about the future; is there a space planning guide around
    > > somewhere.
    >
    > It depends on what you like to do. My kde workstaion has a 2 GB disk and
    > du -h gives:
    > /dev/ad0s1g 2.0G 1.5G 340M 82% /usr
    >
    > This doesn't inculde /usr/ports/, /usr/src/ and /usr/obj/, since I let
    > antoher machine handle this. The later two are for upgrading your
    > system.
    >
    > du -sh /usr/* gives:
    > 287M X11R6
    > 11M bin
    > 85M compat
    > 2.0K export1
    > 1.5M games
    > 145M home (one user)
    > 8.8M include
    > 28M lib
    > 11M libdata
    > 16M libexec
    > 879M local
    > 428M ports (exist on another computer; the minium is 250M)
    > 334M src (exist on another computer)
    > 435M obj (exist on another computer)
    > 6.6M sbin
    > 36M share
    >
    > For a workstation with X and sources you need 3G, without souces you
    > need 2G.

    I do have a /tmp disk with 4G of space for building ports. Jdk requeres
    2.5G and open office need 2 - 4 GB of space. 

    -- 
Alex
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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