Just a little info for the noobs (like me):
I found that I needed FreeBSD src on my install, to help me figure out the issue with my sound configuration. I am running Nomad on a 256G Samsung USB3.1 thumb drive. When I tried to download the src files from github, here’s the error I got:
root@NomadBSD:/home/nomad # git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /usr/src
Cloning into '/usr/src'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4101001, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (379565/379565), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27610/27610), done.
Receiving objects: 21% (871381/4101001), 296.11 MiB | 2.15 MiB/s
/: write failed, filesystem is full
fatal: write error: No space left on device
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
It took me a minute to realize that the Nomad root directory files are installed on a partition that is less than 4G and it has only about 34M of space left. The rest of the system, the user space, is mounted on the rest of the drive on /data. So the normal /usr/src directory for the installation of the src files had no room on it. Still, that’s where freebsd-update looks for it when updating.
root@NomadBSD:/home/nomad # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/label/nomadroot 3.4G 3.1G 34M 99% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
tmpfs 20G 46M 20G 0% /tmp
tmpfs 3.6G 144K 3.6G 0% /var/log
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
fdescfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev/fd
/dev/label/nomaddata 232G 13G 201G 6% /data
/dev/md0.uzip 6.6G 6.0G 651M 90% /unionfs/usr/local
/dev/fuse 238G 19G 201G 9% /usr/local
/data/compat 232G 13G 201G 6% /compat
/data/var/tmp 232G 13G 201G 6% /var/tmp
/data/var/db 232G 13G 201G 6% /var/db
/data/usr/ports 232G 13G 201G 6% /usr/ports
The solution was to create a src directory under /data/usr and install the src to that. (In fact, I did the same with ports, since the drive is plenty big.)
`# mkdir /data/usr/src`
root@NomadBSD:/ # git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /data/usr/src
Cloning into '/data/usr/src'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4101001, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (379565/379565), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27610/27610), done.
remote: Total 4101001 (delta 373820), reused 351955 (delta 351955), pack-reused 3721436
Receiving objects: 100% (4101001/4101001), 1.40 GiB | 2.19 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3251030/3251030), done.
Updating files: 100% (88339/88339), done.
I then sym-linked the /usr/src directory to the /data/usr/src directory by:
ln -s /usr/src /data/usr/src
I did the same with /data/ports. So, now I have both the ports tree and and FreeBSD src.
Then I updated the src with:
# cd /data/usr/src
# git pull --rebase
Just a comment, though, it is not recommended to mix ports with packages, due to the possibility of conflicting dependencies not being automagically resolved and the ports tree does take a lot of space on your thumb drive.
TH