From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 06:05:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEEF9106568C for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from raats.xs4all.nl (raats.xs4all.nl [82.95.230.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8ED8FC1C for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from raats.xs4all.nl (localhost.jarasoft.net [127.0.0.1]) by raats.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5689016A59B; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jara3 (unknown [192.168.1.101]) by raats.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D816916A47B; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:50:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <003701c8a9bc$ee7a08e0$0202fea9@jarasoft.net> From: "Jack Raats" To: "Hartleigh Burton" , References: <8176B9AB-92B0-4150-9127-C41D79D0E7C4@destra.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:50:29 +0200 Organization: JaRaSoft, Steenbergen, Nederland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Signed-With-GnuPG: GPGrelay Version 0.959 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Subject: Re: a monster stole my / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jack Raats List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:05:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hartleigh Burton" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:40 AM Subject: a monster stole my / > Hiya! > > I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have found > a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but I > can't find what is taking up all the additional space. At best without > destroying what I still do not understand I can manage to get / to > about 101% capacity. > > To answer a couple of potential questions straight up, there is > nothing in /root and /tmp is on a separate partition. > > intranet# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 989M 986M -76M 108% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da0s1e 989M 216K 910M 0% /tmp > /dev/da0s1f 58G 4.8G 48G 9% /usr > /dev/da0s1d 4.8G 2.2G 2.3G 49% /var > /dev/da1p1 3.3T 682G 2.4T 22% /db > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev > I once had the same problem. A .core file in the / caused the problem. After deleting the .core file everything was back to normal Jack -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFIFrcmPh5RwW/NzC4RAmi6AJ4y2w8TFbjui35jOhExaPSzI0PzngCgmjVw KRkjtNbM8jI97Yy/5Fto4ok= =eY56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----