From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 22:45:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8013E37BB2B for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03549 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:45:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <3928C96E.394A8BA1@nasby.net> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:45:18 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root filesystem full References: <200005220414.e4M4Eup07940@fedde.littleton.co.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Or, link /tmp to another partition, such as /var: mv -R /tmp/* /var/tmp && rm -rf /tmp && ln -s /var/tmp /tmp or, if you don't want to mix the two 'tmp's: mv /tmp /var/roottmp && ln -s /var/roottmp /tmp Chris Fedde wrote: > > On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:34:07 +0930 Greg Lehey wrote: > +------------------ > | On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 21:00:43 -0700, Steve Leibel wrote: > | > My / just filled up, here's the output of df: > | > > | > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > | > /dev/wd2s1a 39647 38551 -2075 106% / > | > /dev/wd2s1f 7803734 3044533 4134903 42% /usr > | > /dev/wd2s1e 19815 3008 15222 17% /var > | > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > | > > | > What kind of things should I be looking to delete or change? > | > | The ones that have filled up the disk, or anything you don't need. > | Check the /tmp file system and any .core files. > +------------------ > > This situation is not as dire as might be supposed (based on some > responses). > > du -x / | sort -n > > will show you the big directories. Chances are you'll find that > all the space is used in /tmp. Turn it into an mfs file system and live > happily ever after. > > chris > > -- > Chris Fedde > 303 773 9134 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message