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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 00:45:18 -0500
From:      "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root filesystem full
Message-ID:  <3928C96E.394A8BA1@nasby.net>
References:  <200005220414.e4M4Eup07940@fedde.littleton.co.us>

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Or, link /tmp to another partition, such as /var:

mv -R /tmp/* /var/tmp && rm -rf /tmp && ln -s /var/tmp /tmp

or, if you don't want to mix the two 'tmp's:

mv /tmp /var/roottmp && ln -s /var/roottmp /tmp

Chris Fedde wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:34:07 +0930  Greg Lehey wrote:
>  +------------------
>  | On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 21:00:43 -0700, Steve Leibel wrote:
>  | > My / just filled up, here's the output of df:
>  | >
>  | > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>  | > /dev/wd2s1a     39647    38551    -2075   106%    /
>  | > /dev/wd2s1f   7803734  3044533  4134903    42%    /usr
>  | > /dev/wd2s1e     19815     3008    15222    17%    /var
>  | > procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
>  | >
>  | > What kind of things should I be looking to delete or change?
>  |
>  | The ones that have filled up the disk, or anything you don't need.
>  | Check the /tmp file system and any .core files.
>  +------------------
> 
> This situation is not as dire as might be supposed (based on some
> responses).
> 
>     du -x / | sort -n
> 
> will show you the big directories.  Chances are you'll find that
> all the space is used in /tmp.  Turn it into an mfs file system and live
> happily ever after.
> 
> chris
> 
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