UFS: / over capacity

Similarly, I ran out of disk space … then quickly keyed Control-C to abort the upgrade, and so on.

I removed /boot/kernel.old, continued to move or remove other things e.g. /var/db/freebsd-update/*, it seems that:

  • no matter how much I remove, the file system remains over capacity.

With the drive connected to a different computer:

root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # df -ahT /dev/da3s2a
Filesystem   Type    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da3s2a  ufs     3.4G    3.1G    -18M   101%    /tmp/nomadroot
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # cd /tmp/nomadroot
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:/tmp/nomadroot # du -Ach -d 1 .
512B    ./.snap
512B    ./media
512B    ./dev
 13M    ./rescue
7.4M    ./sbin
2.1M    ./var
244K    ./libexec
512B    ./tmp
512B    ./mnt
512B    ./proc
1.3M    ./root
 14M    ./lib
4.0K    ./nvidia
512B    ./net
2.1M    ./etc
240M    ./boot
999M    ./usr
1.3M    ./bin
512B    ./compat
2.9M    ./usr.local.etc
1.8G    ./uzip
1.5K    ./unionfs
512B    ./data
1.5M    ./lost+found
3.1G    .
3.1G    total
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:/tmp/nomadroot # cd && umount /tmp/nomadroot
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # lsblk da3
DEVICE         MAJ:MIN SIZE TYPE                                          LABEL MOUNT
da3              2:101  29G MBR                                               - -
  <FREE>         -:-   993K -                                                 - -
  da3s1          2:102  40M efi                                               - -
  da3s2          2:103 3.5G BSD                                               - -
    <FREE>       -:-   1.0M -                                                 - -
    da3s2a       2:105 3.5G freebsd-ufs                         label/nomadroot -
  da3s3          2:104  25G BSD                                               - -
    <FREE>       -:-   1.0M -                                                 - -
    da3s3a       2:106  25G freebsd-ufs                         label/nomaddata -
  <FREE>         -:-   506K -                                                 - -
root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # 

For any of the listed folders, does disk usage appear excessive (compared to a fresh installation of NomadBSD)?

Is the output from df(1) sane in this case?

Can UFS not recover from (not regain free space after) over capacity situations?

TIA