No Space Left on Drive

[KoopaTroopa]

Salutations!

So I'm journeying over to the red side from Linux. I initially got FreeBSD and made a bootable USB however I was unable to install any desktop enviroment due to some form of error. So instead I got PCBSD which comes with several envrioments pre-installed. Since it's the live USB version it comes with out the collection of ports that I need I will have to fetch them.

I tried doing such with portsnap fetchp however was greeted with a 'No space left on device' message. Only 7MB of space is eligible for me to use. My external drive (laptop drive with external drive kit) has the PcBSD partition at 4GB and the remaining 23GB has free space. The df command output is

Filesystem      1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/ROOTFS     27132   26588    -1624   107%    /
devfs                   1       1        0   100%    /dev
/dev/md6           100380     188    92164     0%    /tmp
/dev/md2          2003484 1830184    13024    99%    /uzip
/dev/md1.uzip    26048932 5293156 18671864    22%    /mntuzip
/dev/md5             1852       8     1696     0%    /usr
/dev/md8           128540    1600   116660     1%    /liveroot
/dev/da2s1a       3816164 2153616  1357256    61%    /media/PCBSDUSBLIVE

How do I make more room available so I can download the entire ports collection?

[Cobalt]

How did you manage to install onto a 4GB partition? The installer shouldn't have let you. The only solution that I can think of is to use a live disc and partition editor to increase the size of the PC-BSD partition.

[KoopaTroopa]

I found the disk dump (dd) command somewhere on pcBSD's site I think. It doesn't allow for selecting what partition size you want.

sudo dd if=PCBSD.img of=/dev/sdd bs=64k conv=sync

How do I go about using a partition editor to change the partition size?

[Cobalt]

You'd need a live CD (or DVD) version of something like PC-BSD or Ubuntu. Then use gparted (GNOME Partition Editor) to modify the partition.

[KoopaTroopa]

You'd need a live CD (or DVD) version of something like PC-BSD or Ubuntu. Then use gparted (GNOME Partition Editor) to modify the partition.

Both 'Disk utility' and 'Gparted' don't seem to recognise the partition type. http://www.fayp.com/vi-2FpQnL.png

[Cobalt]

I could have sworn that I've edited a PC-BSD partition before with gparted. I guess you could re-install PC-BSD using the regular installer.