From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 14 09:40:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA21648 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.ibm.net [165.87.194.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA21642 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:40:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net) Received: from aldebaran.ird.rl.af.mil (slip166-72-108-45.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.45]) by out5.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA96870; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:39:55 GMT Message-Id: <199712141739.RAA96870@out5.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: Matthew Black , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:37:12 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Unix help X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3493EA5D.504F@quake.execnet.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...Ok background story...I run a FreeBSD system at > Quake.execnet.com...which is becoming a popular site, and one of my > users told me he had a problem with his cgi scripts, and asked me for > some help...the webdirectory is on a separate drive...anyways I logged > on, to my surprise the root drive "/" was full and at -101% capcity...I > had a friend help me determine the why it was like that...he said the > files in the stand directory were to big I mean 1+meg each...he said go > replace them...so tell me if he is correct and if so where do I get > these files from... Matt, You might have /var /tmp or even /compat on the root file sysem. I suggest you move them to /usr and then create a link. This will free up the space. So ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp for example. Michael G. ------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by the letters "O" and "S" and the number "2" Live FreeBSD... or Die! COBOL...the language of business! C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN ----------------------------------