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Kenzo wrote to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org:

> This is what I get whtn I run " du -x / | sort -rn > /tmp/du.out
> I see what I did wrong.
> thanks.
> 121371  /
> 70400   /root

So my first suspicion was warranted. :-)

> 29404   /root/.mozilla

For security reasons, and with few exceptions, you probably don't want
to run everyday applications as root. One of UNIX's strengths, in
general, is the ability to do almost everything as an unpriviliged user.

- Ryan

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