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Subject: Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...
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On June 15, 2005 05:24 pm, SteveW wrote:
> 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.

1. Create  a separate /tmp filesystem. You should never let ordinary users (or 
daemons) write to the root filesystem. Unless you really need the nearly 4G 
of space you have in /var for a specific reason, you should be able to take 
some space out of there for your /tmp.

2. Use du to track down large files/directories, as was suggested by someone 
else.

3. Double check the size of hidden files in / and /root.

4. When you find out what is/was filling your filesystem, change the 
configuration so it doesn't happen again.

>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> INFO:
> FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 / 80gig drive
>
> df was: /dev/ad0s1a   252M   250M -18.5M   108%
>
> df now:
> Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a   252M   230M   1.8M    99%    /
> /dev/ad0s1g    29G   2.3G    24G     9%    /home
> /dev/ad0s1f   3.0G   1.7G   1.0G    62%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e   3.9G    75M   3.5G     2%    /var
> procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
>
> After the cras dmesg was filled with this:
> pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full
> pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full
>

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Ean Kingston

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