From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 06:41:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11215 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 06:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.88.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11202 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 06:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02964; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:35:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: "Robert D. Keys" Message-Id: <199808191335.JAA02964@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: checking amount of disk space left? In-Reply-To: <35DAC6B0.41E84389@athena.ualr.edu> from Joe at "Aug 19, 98 07:36:00 am" To: jeroyce@athena.ualr.edu (Joe) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:35:43 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > And if you run out of disk space, a "rm -r *" will give you all the space you > need...and if you really feel stupid, log in as root and cd to / first.... No sweat.... everyone has done this once or twice, when they weren't paying attention, and trying to clean up major file systems too late at night with too little sleep. It goes with learning unix, and makes one a real believer in actually looking at what you are doing rather than typing hastily along... It kindof leaves you with that great emtpy fs feeling......(:+}}..... I have done it twice, that I remember, unintentionally, in about 20 years of play.... oh, well, that is what dump tapes are for.... RDK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message