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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Gregory G. Losik" <gregor@cc.gatech.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /: file system is full
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On Sat, Sep 06, 1997 at 11:12:25PM -0400, Gregory G. Losik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is really easy one but I wasn't able to find anything that simple in
> archives and maybe you can refer me to some manual where I can learn more...
>
> I just installed 2.2.2 on my 1gig partition.  Used auto for creation of /,
> /usr, /var, and /proc FS.  Installed X, and later during addition of
> other packages got something like "/: file system is full"  df -k reports
> 109% used for /.
> Basicly, I am trying to find out what are my options and what tools can I
> use to change things (lots of rm:)?  What's best configuration?
>
> Now, my / is 31M, /usr is ~1gig, and /var = 30M.  Don't have any data yet.

Hmmm.  This is the second report we've seen recently.  Try this:

# find / -xdev -size +2000 | xargs ls -l

This will find all files larger than 1 MB (2000 blocks of 512 byte) on
the root file system.  The only ones that should be there should be
/kernel and /kernel.GENERIC (and possibly other kernels that you have
put there).

If that doesn't find anything untoward, do:

# find / -xdev -type d

This lists all the directories in /.  You should get something like:

/ /dev /dev/fd /usr /stand /stand/help /stand/etc /etc /etc/gnats
/etc/kerberosIV /etc/mtree /etc/namedb /etc/ppp /etc/uucp /proc /cdrom
/dist /bin /lkm /mnt /root /sbin /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix /src /home

If there are other directories there, check them out.  In particular,
of course, /var shouldn't be there.

Greg