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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:56:58 -0900
From:      "Beech Rintoul" <lists@northwindcom.net>
To:        "Jason Morgan" <jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HELP! root partition full!
Message-ID:  <017301c2c8a2$2283b7f0$732ced18@admin>
References:  <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Morgan" <jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: HELP! root partition full!


> I got a strange error from my server this morning - root partition full.
> I then looked at my email and had this in my inbox (of course I get
> this every day):
> 
> Disk status:
> Filesystem        1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a          516062  505036   -30258   106%    /
> /dev/ad2s1a          516062  117638   357140    25%    /rootbackup
> procfs                    4       4        0   100%    /proc
> /dev/vinum/usr     19850256 1112316 17149920     6%    /usr
> /dev/vinum/var     23579203    9623 21683244     0%    /var
> /dev/vinum/public  29776085     116 27393883     0%    /public
> 
> This was yesterday:
> 
> Disk status:
> Filesystem        1K-blocks    Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a          516062  135492   339286    29%    /
> /dev/ad2s1a          516062  117638   357140    25%    /rootbackup

> procfs                    4       4        0   100%    /proc
> /dev/vinum/usr     19850256 1108980 17153256     6%    /usr
> /dev/vinum/var     23579203    9323 21683544     0%    /var
> /dev/vinum/public  29776085     116 27393883     0%    /public
> 
> How do I determine what's going on? This is really strange.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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>

Use df to find the file thats filling your root:

 du -a -x /usr | sort -rn | tee /tmp/root-space

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