From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 23:57:15 2002 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 8EF8C37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.ing.nl (mail1.ing.nl [145.221.93.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244BF43E75 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Cleaning up /] Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:56:27 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: Importance: normal X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Cleaning up /] Thread-Index: AcKFJK4fCK3eKHIeS0qau08xkpZDigARUhAw From: To: , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Nov 2002 07:56:28.0237 (UTC) FILETIME=[02F407D0:01C2856A] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What about /tmp ? You could symlink it to some other fs... > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Emmerton [mailto:matt@gsicomp.on.ca] > Sent: 06 November 2002 00:40 > To: I am Insane; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Cleaning up /] >=20 >=20 > > I need some help. I'm not a complete newbie but I'm new=20 > enough to not > > know which files are actually needed in my / filesystem. > > > > my current df -k shows > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 100750 82898 9792 89% / > > /dev/ad0s1g 10080382 766404 8507548 8% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1h 15421366 26432 14161226 0% /usr/home > > /dev/ad0s1e 201518 3332 182066 2% /var > > /dev/ad0s1f 2015918 144 1854502 0% /var/mail > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > > > and I am aware that if / gets to 100% the system has a good=20 > chance of > > crashing. > > > > how can I tell what files can be removed in order to free=20 > up some space? >=20 > In a properly-configured system, the files in / shouldn't=20 > change (nor should > new files be added), so / should should stay at 89% used indefinitely. >=20 > By default, user home directories are in /usr/home (which has=20 > lots of free > space), and system logs and mail are in /var (which also has=20 > lots of space.) >=20 > > and/or how can i tell which files are the largest and need to be > addressed? >=20 > I wouldn't delete any files from / unless you're 110% sure=20 > that they're not > needed. >=20 > -- > Matt Emmerton >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 -----------------------------------------------------------------=0A= ATTENTION:=0A= The information in this electronic mail message is private and=0A= confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you=0A= receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that=0A= any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this=0A= message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by=0A= reply transmission and delete the message without copying or=0A= opening it.=0A= =0A= Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known.=0A= If this message contains password-protected attachments, the=0A= files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain.=0A= Always scan attachments before opening them.=0A= ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message