On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 04:10:11PM +0200, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not have > > enough space left for installing packages and today even upgrading a > > snapshot failed because I had not enough space left. > > Is there a way to resize partitions? I guess probably not because there is > > no volume manager, right? > > I used originally the suggested layout by the installer. Any idea what > > could fill up the space on /? The partition is only 1GB in size and if I > > see it correctly only the base-system is installed there. Did base grew > > with the latest snapshots? > > I found the problem. It sat in front of the keyboard m) > At some point I created apparently by accident a huge file in /dev and > that ate up all the space in / > One problem solved. Now to my other space-problems where resizing would > be a solution but maybe I just need to tidy up more. > > -- > Schöne Grüße > > Niels
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#GrowPartition has some hints, but that method only works for partitions that have free space next to them. Sometimes you have to move another partition first to create an empty partition. Sometimes you are lucky and /tmp is next to the partion you wat to grow, so you can avoid some juggling. But this is all pretty risky, mistakes are easily made since this is all hand work. Often it is jiust easier to backup /etc and /home and other local stuff and reinstall. -Otto
