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Re: "Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."



on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:17:56PM -0500, Joanne Hunter (jrhunter@penguin.menagerie.tf) wrote:

> So, after doing the apt-get upgrade of the week, download kernel source
> (always fun on a 56K modem), untar, make menuconfig, yadda yadda yadda. Make
> dep, make bzImage - eep, out of space? Apparently I'd overfilled /usr to the
> point that it only had space left for untarring the kernel source, and there
> was *just* not enough left for it to compile a kernel.
> 
> Ahso. Delete a few archives of source in there; who needs the backup tarball
> of the current kernel source anyways? Live dangerously, that's not my motto.
> Search through dselect, remove a few packages, et cetera, et cetera. Yay,
> /usr should now have some space!
> 
> Type df to check this. It reports 0 blocks available on /usr.

What's:

    $ cd /usr; du -sx * 
    
...tell you?

Peace.

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