Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:59:07 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Phantom Files, Filesystem Full Message-ID: <426A9AFB.2030603@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <426A95FC.5030001@houston.rr.com> References: <426A95FC.5030001@houston.rr.com>
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Ryan Winograd wrote: > I was editing a conf file in /etc and, when i tried to write the file vi > told me it couldn't save because the filesystem is full! I ran df and, > sure enough, the / fs has 245M of 258M used: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 248M 245M -17M 108% / > > This was certaintly a surprise, because all my data is located on other > partitions, so i ran du -h -d1 / to find the culprit, but i still > couldn't find what is using up all my / disk space! What can i do to > find out where all my disk space has gone?!?! I suspect that running "du -hxd 1 /" would be more helpful, BTW. Anyway, it would help to know what other filesystems you have (ie, is /tmp on root, or /var?). Regardless, a good place to check is whether /root has grown out-of-control-- logging into X + KDE or GNOME, running apps like Mozilla which create big user profiles, for example, although trying to run "perl -MCPAN" or many others things could also do it. Otherwise, you might have files which have been deleted but are still being held by a process using that space. If something was generating a huge logfile which you'd already deleted, try restarting it and/or syslogd. For that matter, try rebooting the system and seeing whether you get more space afterwards. -- -Chuck
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