Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:32:12 -0500 From: Marc LeMaire <krockmitaine@sympatico.ca> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: dave@whatsthebigidea.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disks fillin up Message-ID: <3E4B03AC.6070601@sympatico.ca> References: <NEBBKHDKBEAKNMFADNDCIEMMCCAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net> <3E4AEF37.6000402@Siemens.com>
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As recommended reading, you can start with "Dealing with full disks" from Michael Lucas : http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/09/27/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Marc Johnson David wrote: > David Radovanovic wrote: > >> Any obvious solutions or recommended reading? >> >> > The obvious solution is to find out what's filling up your root > partition. Since you don't have either /tmp or /var mounted there, I > suspect that you either have A) a whole bunch of old kernels; B) have > a whole bunch of coredumps under /; or C) you've been using root as a > login account, and now have too much stuff in /root. 126M is more than > enough room for a root partition that doesn't have /tmp or /var. > > For further reading, see the du manpage. > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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