From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 01:48:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFE516A407 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA41343D4C for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:48:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9I1lihZ012133 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:47:47 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9I1mL0O058072; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:48:21 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9I1mJEo057695; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:48:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:48:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: root@rithy4u.net Message-ID: <20061018014819.GA72686@gothmog.pc> References: <45357AF8.1020101@rithy4u.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45357AF8.1020101@rithy4u.net> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.588, required 5, AWL -1.18, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, DOMAIN_4U2 1.99, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system full X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:48:03 -0000 On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" wrote: > Dear All, > 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? First of all, try to track down where all the space has gone, by using `df' and `du' with the -x option. For example, you can get a good idea of which places in your root filesystem are the top-10 users of space with: # cd / # du -xm . | sort -nr | head -10 If this doesn't show up a lot of stuff, then there's probably a rogue process which has opened a file and then removed it, so it's not directly visible by traversing the tree with `du', but you can still look for it with: # fstat -f / | sort -k +8 After you get this sort of information, we can make more informed suggestions about the best way to move forward :)