From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 17:17:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FB11065672 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527B38FC20 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 97426 invoked by uid 89); 17 Dec 2008 17:17:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 17 Dec 2008 17:17:02 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <283ACBF4-8227-4A24-9E17-80A17CA2A098@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Almberg Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:16:57 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: How to find files that are eating up disk space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:17:03 -0000 Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is probably a laughable situation to an experienced admin... I've got a smallish server that is suddenly out of disk space in the '/' partition. Probably some log files have gotten out of hand. I am going to start looking for the culprits by hand... basically inspecting sub directories, but there must be a better way! Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the problem is? Even better, is there a way to proactively monitor the file system, so I can fix problems before I start getting 'out of disk space' errors? Any hints, much appreciated. -- John