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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:19:37 -0700
From:      chip.wiegand@simrad.com
To:        nkinkade@dsl-only.net
Cc:        freebsd - <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: can't find certain doc
Message-ID:  <OFE1188544.B1BA6B09-ON88256C5B.00642294-88256C5B.00650A70@simrad.no>
In-Reply-To: <20021023180102.GB270@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>

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owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 10/23/2002 11:01:02 AM:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:52:58AM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote:
> >
> > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 10/23/2002 09:02:41 AM:
> >
> > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com
wrote:
> > > > I thought I saw a doc called something like 'what to do if your
hard
> > drive
> > > > gets full'. I checked the docs
> > > > the freebsd.org and couldn't find anything like that. Is there a
doc
> > out
> > > > there some place that tells me
> > > > what to do when the root partition fills up, for no apparent
reason?
> > This
> > > > machine is strictly a web
> > > > backup box and rarely is used for anything else, yet the root
partition
> > is
> > > > at 104%.
> >
> > > Try:
> > > # cd /
> > > # du -h -d 1 -I usr
> > >
> > > This should tell you how much space each file/dir is using in /,
> > > excluding, the 'usr'.  Some  of  the other dirs are bound to be
> > > mounted filesystems, but ignore those.  Exluding 'usr' just saves
> > > a lot of time, as `du' doesn't have to calculate that beast of a
> > > filesystem.
> >
> > > Nathan

> > That helps a lot, thanks, though I still haven't found any one
particularly
> > large file or directory. In /var/db/pkg is about 14megs, is it okay to
> > clear
> > that stuff? And in . is kernel and kernel.generic, do I need both of
these?
> > I have gotten the du down to 98% so far, on a 150meg / partition.

> Can you sent the output of `df -h` and the output of `du -h -d 1 -I usr`
> to the list?

Output of df -h ----

Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a   148M   132M   3.4M    98%    /
/dev/ad0s1e    18G   3.7G    13G    23%    /usr
linprocfs     4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

Output of du -h -d 1 -I usr ----

 70K  ./dev
2.1M  ./stand
2.8M  ./etc
2.0K  ./cdrom
 26K  ./proc
3.9M  ./bin
392K  ./boot
2.0K  ./mnt
5.1M  ./modules
212K  ./root
 11M  ./sbin
6.0K  ./tmp
 15M  ./var
2.0K  ./floppy
 48M  .


I cleaned up the mail for root and my own use account, both of which
made no appreciable differance in available space. Cleaned /tmp also.

--
Chip

>  Another common place to check is /tmp, unless, of course,
> it's mounted on it's own filesystem - as it probably should be.
> Technically, it's ok to get rid of kernel.GENERIC, but you probably
> don't want to do this.  kernel.GENERIC may get you out of a bind
> sometime if you have compiled your own kernel and for some reason it
> won't boot.  However, if you haven't built your kernel and you never
> plan to, and you are running the stock, generic kernel anyway you can
> probably delete kernel.GENERIC without too much risk.

> Nathan

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