FreeBSD 8.2 reports filesystem full

[TroN-0074]

I am trying to upgrade my installed applications but when run the

# portsnap fetch

I got a message reporting that the filesystem is full.

Here is the actual message

portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Fetching snapshot generated at Sat Feb 11 19:05:21 EST 2012:
3e3bb856d084a1e56f2cd8a3100dc7de64ce2e9b131073  0% of   65 MB    0  Bps
/var: write failed, filesystem is full
3e3bb856d084a1e56f2cd8a3100dc7de64ce2e9b131073  0% of   65 MB   46 kBps
fetch: 3e3bb856d084a1e56f2cd8a3100dc7de64ce2e9b13107350a3c8292e91dd6212.tgz: No space left on device

I also keep getting the message

/var: write failed, filesystem is full

Can somebody please suggest how to free up space so I can upgrade. I have tried

# portupgrade -an

and still I had no luck. Thank you I will appreciate all advice.

 

[jrm@]

To look for files taking up lots of space you can try something like
% find /var -type f -size +25M -exec du -m {} \; | sort -n
, which prints a sorted list of the files greater than 25M under the /var. The list is sorted by file size in ascending order (the largest file size is printed last). The size (actually block counts in 1-Mbyte blocks) and path under the specified location is printed.

Also
% du -sm /var/* | sort -n will print directory totals in, again, block counts in 1-Mbyte blocks.

You might want to run these commands as root to ensure you can search in all subdirectories.

You could also tell portsnap to use a working directory on a partition with more space. Take a look at portsnap().