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Subject: Re: root is full
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Will Prater <lists-wp@mercurycloud.net> writes:

> My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled
> so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and
> now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the
> root partition?

"du -x /" will tell you what is using space (but note that deleting a
file doesn't help until every process holding the file open also
closes it).

Also see:
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL