From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 21:50:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704EE16A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:50:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499FF43D49 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:50:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CE258C5; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62932-05; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E753C58BA; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F1C56BB; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: SteveW In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050615144836.J63260@wolf.pjkh.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... 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, 15 Jun 2005 21:50:41 -0000 > Hi All, > > df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why... > > After searching google freebsd.org I am no nearing to figuring this out, > other than this is a "known" problem. Either I or the system managed to get > the root partition back to under 100% but only just... I have looked for any > large files that might be taking up space but have yet to locate anything > over 3meg. > > Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts gratefully received. cd / du -hsx * -h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte -s Display an entry for each specified file. (Equivalent to -d 0) -x File system mount points are not traversed. Look for the largest directly, cd into that and repeat until you get down far enough to find the offender. Works for me... -philip