Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:02:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ron Joordens <ron.joordens@indec.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /root file system full Message-ID: <20040303220241.GC37555@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377211FB@INDEC-NTSERVER> References: <11F383396235D511994B00A0C9E175377211FB@INDEC-NTSERVER>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote:
> My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem,
> what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it
> doesn't happen again.
>=20
> Any thoughts?
Check for core files (called 'foo.core' for many different values of
foo) -- you can just delete these unless you're going to get into
debugging in a serious way.
Check the contents of root's home directory, /root -- you should never
log into the system as root, especially not via a graphical login.
You shouldn't run any interactive command as root unless it's
absolutely necessary. If you've got a /root/.kde or a /root/.gnome*
or a /root/GNUstep or a /root/.mozilla then delete those directories
straight away, and give yourself a good slap on the wrist for being a
bad boy. There shouldn't be much stuff in /root at all. There
probably shouldn't be any subdirectories of /root, except for the
stuff under /root/.ssh
To search the root partition for files matching certain conditions,
use the find(1) command. The '-xdev' option lets you limit the search
to just the one partition. Eg. to find all files modified in the last
week:
# find / -xdev -mtime -7 -print
Or to find all files over 1Mb in size and produce a long-format listing:
# find / -xdev -size +1048576c -ls
(that only produces a list of 39 files on my machine).
Cheers,
Matthew
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