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Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET writes:

>  My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have
>  try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but
>  I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB worth of that
>  partition. Any ideas?

	du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 50 | more

	Longer version: you should know what lives on directly under /
and roughly how much space it takes.  If some directory which used
to take 27.4 mb suddenly has 311 mb ....


				Robert Huff