[PC-BSD] Cannot update: virtually empty disk supposedly full?

recondite · #1 April 4th, 2012, 04:47

When using the Update Manager GUI tool in PC BSD 9.0 (based on FreeBSD) I get the following message.

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Failed to install:BugFix: Adds complete foomatic set, 8000+ new printer drivers 
Possible causes: Dropped internet connection or low disk space.

I don't see how it can be the internet connection because I've been able to get on the Web all day using firefox, yet I tried this upgrade several times and it failed each time. I suppose it could be disk space but I have a 120 GB SSD drive on which I only have BSD installed. I installed bsd about two days ago (for the first time ever) and I have created no user data on the computer yet, so I should have plenty of space. There might be a space limit on some folder I suppose but I don't know how to check that and I can't find where the GUI Disk Utility is on this (I'm using XFCE).

Here is what df is telling me (not sure what it all means though, it's a bit different from Linux).

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Filesystem         1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/label/rootfs0   2015516   428008  1426268    23%    /
devfs                      1        1        0   100%    /dev
/dev/label/var0      2063900    82704  1816084     4%    /var
/dev/label/usr0    109276676 22075588 78458956    22%    /usr
procfs                     4        4        0   100%    /proc
linprocfs                  4        4        0   100%    /compat/linux/proc
/dev/da0s2          31310928       64 31310864     0%    /mnt

Should I be concerned about the 100% capacity in some of the above folders? If so, how can I rectify the problem? Don't see why it would get so full so fast.

recondite · #2 April 4th, 2012, 04:49

Oops: the output from df was in nice neat columns until I posted it. I'll try again using HTML tags for formatting.

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Filesystem         1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/label/rootfs0   2015516   428008  1426268    23%    /
devfs                      1        1        0   100%    /dev
/dev/label/var0      2063900    82704  1816084     4%    /var
/dev/label/usr0    109276676 22075588 78458956    22%    /usr
procfs                     4        4        0   100%    /proc
linprocfs                  4        4        0   100%    /compat/linux/proc
/dev/da0s2          31310928       64 31310864     0%    /mnt

dave · #3 April 4th, 2012, 07:09

Ask this in the PC-BSD forum.

**SirDice** · #4 April 4th, 2012, 07:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by recondite

When using the Update Manager GUI tool in PC BSD 9.0

recondite · #5 April 4th, 2012, 21:46

<<
Please format your posts!
>>

I would have if I knew how.

**fonz** · #6 April 4th, 2012, 21:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by recondite

<<
Please format your posts!
>>

I would have if I knew how.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8816

There are a couple of other sticky threads in the General forum that you're supposed to have read before posting, as indicated in the e-mail you received when you signed up.

Fonz

**DutchDaemon** · #7 April 5th, 2012, 00:25

This error is strictly applicable to PC-BSD (FreeBSD has no 'Update Manager GUI'), so ask this on their forum.

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