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I try to install gnome-2.26.2nb5 on NetBSD-7.0 but I receive the following message:

computer#pkgin install gnome-2.26.2nb5 pkgin: /usr/pkg does not have enough space for installation (276M required only 274M available)

It's a fresh install of NetBSD-7.0 and I have installed it on a partition with size of around 23GB.

I wonder what is the best way to increase the size of /usr/pkg on NetBSD.

Output of df -lh is like: 

Script started on Tue Mar  1 05:02:04 2016
dhcppc9# df -lh
Filesystem         Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/wd0a           21G        20G       274M  98% /
kernfs             1.0K       1.0K         0B 100% /kern
ptyfs              1.0K       1.0K         0B 100% /dev/pts
procfs             4.0K       4.0K         0B 100% /proc
tmpfs              384M         0B       384M   0% /var/shm
/dev/sd0e           30G       1.5G        29G   4% /mnt
dhcppc9# exit

Script done on Tue Mar  1 05:02:16 2016

Also du -sh /usr/pkgsrc shows that 15GB is consumed by /usr/pkgsrc. I installed NetBSD-7.0 recently and at first I tried to compile/build gnome desktop environment, but ran into an error after hours of compiling due to a bug in xulrunner192. Therefore, I decided to install gnome desktop binaries with pkgin install but the size of file system is not enough. I think possibly compiling gnome which is a huge meta package is taking too much space on file system. I'm not sure.

Megidd
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  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it belongs on unix.stackexchange.com – Ian Kemp Mar 01 '16 at 14:25
  • @IanKemp I flagged my own question to be migrated to another forum, after I asked my question. I'm not sure how the migration process works. – Megidd Mar 01 '16 at 16:49

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Depending on your existing partition layout it might be simplest to merge /usr/pkg into /usr or to exchange its usage with another partition.

Another option might be to split another larger partition to allow for a bigger /usr/pkg, or even to reinstall (if you do not have much data on the system yet).

What does a df -lh report?

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  • I added `df -lh` output to my post – Megidd Mar 01 '16 at 07:35
  • You should probably clear down any of the work directories for the partially built packages - either `make clean` in `/usr/pkgsrc`, or `cd /usr/pkgsrc ; rm -rf */*/work` (the latter for the impatient :) If you are using `pkgin` to install binary packages you could just delete all of `/usr/pkgsrc` as you only need it if you are building from source. – abs Mar 01 '16 at 10:40
  • I'm a little surprised that compiling/building gnome desktop would consume around 15GB of file system. I figured out that there has been problems like [this](https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/08/19/msg022047.html) before. – Megidd Mar 01 '16 at 13:18
  • When you build a package which pulls in other packages pkgsrc keeps the extracted files & build directories for all the needed packages around, while you're building... which can lead to quite a lot of space for a large meta package like gnome. – abs Mar 02 '16 at 13:11