Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 20:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu (Kenneth Legg) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: / dir filling up Message-ID: <199908060040.UAA07371@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <37AA2727.22DE6BA@mail.wvnet.edu> from Kenneth Legg at "Aug 5, 99 08:07:03 pm"
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Kenneth Legg wrote, > Why does my / dir keep filling up? When I installed the system I took > the default disk partitioning, and it gave me forty meg for the / > partition. I'm not sure what all goes to / partition. How do I find out > what's in this dir? and can I make it larger. The usual suspects are: /root - The root user's home directory (1) /tmp - The scratch directory (2) 1) If you are logging in as root rather than a 'mortal' user, stop it. Filling up / is a good reason, but not the best, to not use root as your casual, every-day user. 2) There are any number of reasons /tmp can fill up. If you cannot figure out the problem, there is the option of symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp (or /usr/tmp), but this is not foolproof either. Those are my best guesses. You really should not be touching other directories much... well, /etc gets a lot of attention, but there really should be no large files there. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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