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Old 5th April 2010
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Originally Posted by mfaridi View Post
1-this hard disk has 9 partitions...
Your /usr partition is essentially full. Hopefully, you have added most of the applications you intent to add. If you intend to add many more, you are running into the chance that /usr will fill completely up preventing you from either completing the installation of the application being installed or any other application.

Auto-partitioning (as BSDfan666 already states...) is simply one way that partitions can be sized. Auto-partitioning cannot guarantee that the partition sizes created will work in all situations. Because you had added so many applications, you have nearly filled up /usr.

What you should learn from this df(1) output is:
  • You should monitor partition sizes throughout the life of this particular installation watching to see if /usr fills completely up. If it does, you may be forced to re-install.
  • You should expect that when you move to OpenBSD 4.7, you should do a fresh installation, not upgrade. Upgrading does not allow partition sizes to be changed.
  • If you look at the sizes of the other partitions, /home doesn't need to be 13GB in size. If in future installations you intend to install the same applications, shrink the size of /home & increase the size of /usr. Yes, this means that you will have to manually size the partitions yourself. Write down in a notebook what sizes work best for you, & refer to this information when you reinstall.
The fact that /usr has filled up the space allotted is not a reason to be concerned unless you intend to add more applications. Simply run df(1) on a regular basis & monitor its size.
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