From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 13:18:38 2003 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 2A5A937B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (gw-ipinc.museum.rain.com [206.29.169.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B46743F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list@museum.rain.com) Received: from ns.museum.rain.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0ULIYLW017878; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list@ns.museum.rain.com) Received: (from list@localhost) by ns.museum.rain.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0ULIVat017877; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from list) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:31 -0800 From: James Long To: Ben Williams Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! root partition full! Message-ID: <20030130131831.A17859@ns.museum.rain.com> Reply-To: james_mapson@museum.rain.com References: <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net> <017301c2c8a2$2283b7f0$732ced18@admin> <99184732771.20030130161245@instantemail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <99184732771.20030130161245@instantemail.net>; from benwilliams@instantemail.net on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:12:45PM -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,MANY_EXCLAMATIONS,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:12:45PM -0500, Ben Williams wrote: > > BR> Use df to find the file thats filling your root: > > BR> du -a -x /usr | sort -rn | tee /tmp/root-space > > Wont the tee will cause this to fail because: > /dev/ad0s1a 516062 505036 -30258 106% / > ? > Many administrators feel that best practice is, at installation time, to rmdir /tmp and ln -s /var/tmp /tmp If tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp, then no, tee will not fail. His /var has oodles of space. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message