From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 7 07:14:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CABA106568D for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D206C8FC0C for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-27-155.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.27.155]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0430D3C4AE; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n877EgvB001903; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:14:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:14:42 +0200 From: Polytropon To: jaymax Message-Id: <20090907091442.f011d137.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <25325443.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <25325443.post@talk.nabble.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inconsistency in root partition size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:14:45 -0000 On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:12:07 -0700 (PDT), jaymax wrote: > Is there somewhere I can find a listing of files and directories that are > supposed to be at the / level? if there is perchance some bizarre file, that > du is not accounting for. You can of course read "man hier" to obtain information about the file system hierarchy. In settings where partitions are used to separate functional parts of the hierarchy, there's often not much stuff that goes into /, because / is primarily reserved for the basic system and the mountpoints; things like /tmp, /var, /usr and /home go to different partitions. Check the content of /boot. Maybe you have more than one kernel image and module files in there. You can as well use # du -sch / with only / mounted to get a first impression which subtrees do occupy how much disk space. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...