/etc 100%

[Daniel Staal]

--As of July 10, 2008 1:53:25 PM +0100, the.phule is alleged to have said:

># df -h
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a     1008M   38.8M    919M     4%    /
> /dev/wd0g     70.2G    1.9G   64.8G     3%    /home
> /dev/wd0f     1008M   16.0K    958M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/wd0e     1008M    961M   -2.7M   100%    /usr
> /dev/wd0d     1008M    8.5M    949M     1%    /var
>
> Anyone got a clue as to what I may have done to fill up /etc with 1gb
> of stuff? how do I go about cleaning it? should it have more space?
>
> thanks for any help

--As for the rest, it is mine.

You didn't fill /etc.  You filled /usr.

Which happens to be where the ports tree lives, and where any applications 
you've installed go.  The current FAQ recommendation[1] for that is 6G, and 
they note that if you are building things from source you could need a lot 
more.  The 'minimum' system listing[2] has it using 660M, so you were over 
half full just from the install.

If you have any spare disks, I'd say put one in and 'union' mount it over 
the current /usr partition.  (Or just plain copy everything over - making 
sure to preserve permissions and links - and replace your current mount.)

The other option of course is to find some programs you aren't using and 
delete them.

Daniel T. Staal

[1]<http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Disks>
[2]<http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning>

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