From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 4:46:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39ED37B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from welsh.dynip.com ([24.162.231.59]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:46:27 -0400 Received: (qmail 26761 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Sep 2000 12:46:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 12:46:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:46:42 -0500 (EST) From: Jason W To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excess baggage on / In-Reply-To: <20000912230309.A15190@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yes, I rebooted it last night. Actually several times since the initial install as this is a new install that I am still tinkering with to make sure that all my startup processes (dhcp, firewall, mail, etc..) come up correctly.. Jason -- ======================================================================= | Jason Welsh jason@welsh.dynip.com | If you think there's | | | good in everybody, you | | http://welsh.dynip.com/ | haven't met everybody. | ======================================================================= On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 12), Jason W said: > > well, heres the output, I still dont see where all the space is being > > taken up. ;) > > > > [root@welsh]# df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 484M 326M 120M 73% / > > /dev/ad0s1f 4.7G 478M 3.9G 11% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 484M 1.7M 444M 0% /var > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > [root@welsh]# du -x -h / > > 34M / > > [root@welsh]# > > > > as you can see, its not /tmp. so what is it?! > > Have you rebooted your machine lately? It's possible you had deleted a > large file that another program still had open. The space will not get > freed up until the file is closed. If you don't want to reboot, you > can run "fstat -f /" to list all the open files on /, and see if there > are any large ones open. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message