On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 12:56 PM, paul beard wrote:

>
>
> Joseph Sarkes wrote:
>> I just managed to install the -current snapshot onto my system and 
>> after a short
>> period of time, the root filesystem was full, andI had not put 
>> anything there myself.
>> Very weird. I just tried to build a new kernel, with all the results 
>> going to /usr. I also
>> haven't found what is using the space yet.
>
> I found that cc was putting lots of scratch files in /tmp (what I 
> wrongly assumed was a tmpfs filesystem) and filling up root. You may 
> want to keep an eye on that when next you build a kernel or package.
>

That's what I thought was happening, but /tmp was empty. It's hidden 
somewhere though,
and I plan on reinstalling again with a much much larger root. I am 
perusing the INSTALL.txt
file even as we speak, to have another go at it.

Joseph Sarkes
jsarkes@tiac.net