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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:01:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        lists-wp@mercurycloud.net (Will Prater)
Cc:        'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: root is full
Message-ID:  <200402182301.i1IN1nG01870@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <250472C4-624D-11D8-A53A-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> from "Will Prater" at Feb 18, 2004 12:00:48 PM

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> List,
> 
> My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled so 
> fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and now 
> its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the root 
> partition?

Run 
   du -sk *
at the base of the file system (root in this case) where the problem is.
Then cd in to suspicious directories - those that look excessively big
and  run du again

Keep following bloated directories until you find your problem.
I would guess you have logs (var/log) and mail (/var/mail) still in root 
and maybe even /tmp but who knows until you track it down a little better.

You may need to either revise your disk layout or at least
move some thing to a bigger partition and make symlinks.

////jerry

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> --will
> 
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