From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 12 18:33:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE38C37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C826B43FA3 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from krockmitaine@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([65.94.194.88]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030213023310.MTWZ17488.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:33:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4B03AC.6070601@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:32:12 -0500 From: Marc LeMaire User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johnson David Cc: dave@whatsthebigidea.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disks fillin up References: <3E4AEF37.6000402@Siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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