From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 14:59:33 2003 Return-Path: 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 D96D237B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BB143F93 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sweetleaf@myrealbox.com) Received: from KroNiC.example.org SweeTLeaF@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [12.210.147.136]$ on Novell NetWare; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:59:30 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:59:36 -0500 From: sweetleaf To: Lowell Gilbert Message-Id: <20030619165936.31801716.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <44ptl9hkt8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> <44ptl9hkt8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Organization: personal X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much space for / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:59:34 -0000 well here is the output for / # du -x 1 ./dev 2 ./home 2 ./private 2 ./tmp 2 ./usr 2 ./var 10 ./stand/etc/defaults 20 ./stand/etc 252 ./stand/help 2410 ./stand 96 ./etc/defaults 22 ./etc/X11 4 ./etc/gnats 52 ./etc/isdn 290 ./etc/mail 52 ./etc/mtree 16 ./etc/namedb 34 ./etc/pam.d 42 ./etc/periodic/daily 6 ./etc/periodic/monthly 42 ./etc/periodic/security 16 ./etc/periodic/weekly 108 ./etc/periodic 4 ./etc/ppp 268 ./etc/rc.d 2 ./etc/skel 106 ./etc/ssh 10 ./etc/ssl 1506 ./etc 2 ./cdrom 2 ./cdrom1 2 ./dist 7874 ./bin 18 ./boot/defaults 17778 ./boot/kernel 2 ./boot/modules 2 ./boot/kernel.old 18412 ./boot 2 ./mnt 2 ./proc 2 ./root/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WPrefs 4 ./root/GNUstep/.AppInfo/WindowMaker 8 ./root/GNUstep/.AppInfo 24 ./root/GNUstep/Defaults 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/Icons 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Styles 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Backgrounds 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/IconSets 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Pixmaps 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds 2 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/SoundSets 362 ./root/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker 366 ./root/GNUstep/Library 400 ./root/GNUstep 4 ./root/.ssh 2 ./root/.netscape 6 ./root/.fullcircle/NetscapeMozillaTrunkLinuxIntel2003061308 8 ./root/.fullcircle 74 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/bsd_junkie/INBOX/Trash 6 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/bsd_junkie/INBOX/Sent Items 6 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/bsd_junkie/INBOX/Drafts 92 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/bsd_junkie/INBOX 94 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/bsd_junkie 6 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton/INBOX/Drafts/save 12 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton/INBOX/Drafts 6 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton/INBOX/Trash 6 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton/INBOX/Sent Items 50 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton/INBOX 52 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm/nealhamilton 148 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.fastmail.fm 24 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/sweetleaf/INBOX 14 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/sweetleaf/Sent 132 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/sweetleaf/Trash 2 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/sweetleaf/inbox 174 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/sweetleaf 54 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/taproot420/Trash 48 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/taproot420/INBOX 22 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/taproot420/save 26 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/taproot420/Sent 152 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com/taproot420 328 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache/imap.myrealbox.com 478 ./root/.sylpheed/imapcache 26 ./root/.sylpheed/newscache/netnews.attbi.com/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd 1692 ./root/.sylpheed/newscache/netnews.attbi.com 1694 ./root/.sylpheed/newscache 2 ./root/.sylpheed/mimetmp 4 ./root/.sylpheed/tmp 2 ./root/.sylpheed/uidl 2 ./root/.sylpheed/templates 4 ./root/.sylpheed/certs 2 ./root/.sylpheed/tempfolder/processing 4 ./root/.sylpheed/tempfolder 3524 ./root/.sylpheed 12 ./root/Mail/inbox 36 ./root/Mail/sent 8 ./root/Mail/queue 6 ./root/Mail/draft 56 ./root/Mail/trash 120 ./root/Mail 2 ./root/.cedit/.t 14 ./root/.cedit 10 ./root/.gnupg 2 ./root/.gkrellm2/plugins 2 ./root/.gkrellm2/themes 2 ./root/.gkrellm2/data/inet 8 ./root/.gkrellm2/data/net 14 ./root/.gkrellm2/data 28 ./root/.gkrellm2 2648 ./root/.axyftp 6 ./root/.IglooFTP/bookmarks 8 ./root/.IglooFTP/app_ass 2 ./root/.IglooFTP/FTQ 2 ./root/.IglooFTP/cache/RDC 2 ./root/.IglooFTP/cache/tmp 6 ./root/.IglooFTP/cache 30 ./root/.IglooFTP 2 ./root/.gftp/cache 24 ./root/.gftp 2 ./root/.secpanel/.runfiles 20 ./root/.secpanel 226990 ./root 24076 ./sbin 281305 . # so what it appears that . is the culprit, correct. I am still learning to read the du command. Thanks in ./adv On 19 Jun 2003 16:30:27 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > sweetleaf writes: > > > When i installed freebsd-5.1, i stayed close to the recommended > > partition sizes in the handbook. The faq. said 100 megabytes would > > usually be enough for the / partition. I decided to install freebsd > > with 300M for the / partition just to be on the safe side. The only > > thing i have added since the original install is the linux > > compatibility and some linux apps i needed such as netscape, opera > > etc. Ok, now for some reason my / partition shows to be full and i > > cant figure it out as like i said only a few apps have been > > installed. It appears to me that after adding linux compatibility > > the / partition went to full maybe because of the syslink "compat" > > that was placed on my / partition by the freebsd-5.1 linux > > compatibility port. > > No, /compat should be pointing off to your /usr partition, so it isn't > using any significant space. > > The question is how to figure out where the space is going, because > you do indeed have what *should* be plenty of space. Use "du -x" to > figure out what's putting a lot of data on /. > > > Is there another way this should be done? > > Depends on how you use your box. For an average desktop, I'm not sure > it's worth splitting up your partitions at all. >