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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 17:01:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: / is full!!!! Please help...
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tom Kersten wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> My root directory is getting close to being full
> (97+%). It is 45 mb....is this too small??? I
> symlinked the /var directory to /usr/var after
> installation and thought that 45 mb would be
> enough...it says that 30 is sufficient in "The
> Complete FreeBSD"..so I put in a little more just in
> case. Anyway, what is the best way to fix this? I read
> a little bit about the 'growfs' command...but am not
> sure of the *best* way to fix my problem. Any tips are
> appreciated. If you need more detailed information,
> please let me know...
You can use
# du -h -d 1
or one of its options to find out what is using your
diskspace.
Then you may set links to use space on your /usr partition
or you even might add a new partition to /etc/fstab . It
will be mounted at boot time whereever you need it.

Regards,

Uli.

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