From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 22:03:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA26770 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rma.edu (rma.edu [207.0.141.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA26764 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:03:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from alwan ([207.0.141.98]) by rma.edu with ESMTP (IPAD 1.51) id 4613300 ; Tue, 04 Mar 1997 01:07:34 EST Message-ID: <331BBB00.41C67EA6@rma.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 01:02:40 -0500 From: Michael Alwan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: disk usage reporting X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To all: Using df to look at my disk space, I get some confusing reports: free capacity mounted on /dev/wd0a -1282 104% / /dev/wd0s4f etc etc The first entry perplexes me. According to the disk label editor, the name of the disk is wd0, and the freebsd partition name is wd0s4, and the file systems are wd0s4a...f. (This is a 1.6mb hard drive with three primary dos partitions and one freebsd partition with the autodefaults for file system allocation). Is the wd0a file system mentioned above the root file system, and is it filling up because I log on as root and all my mail and web caches are there? Why is it /dev/wd0a and not /dev/wd0s4a? Perhaps these are the wages of the evil sin of logging on as root--perhaps if I had a /usr/home directory I wouldn't be running out of space. Any suggestions on how to handle this problem in the future (relocate mail and disk caches--a temporary fix?), are my suppositions correct, and what about the file system name discrepancies. Any light shed on these matters would be appreciated! Thanks, Michael