From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 01:36:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C179C16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 01:36:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD8C43D2F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 01:36:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i661anwk038610; Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:36:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:36:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Richard Bradley Message-ID: <20040706013649.GN6574@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200407060229.03972.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407060229.03972.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /rescue is huge!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 01:36:54 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said: > I recently tried to add a user to my FreeBSD box, but was amazed to > find that the / partition was full! I had a look, and the culprit is > the "/rescue" folder, holding 135 statically linked binaries of > nearly 4Mb each, giving a folder size of 491Mb! Check the inode number of each file in /rescue (ls -li /rescue). You'll notice they're all the same, which means they're all hardlinks to the same file. "du /rescue" should report under 4MB. Your space is probably being taken up somewhere else. > What is going on here? I read the "rescue" manpage, and while it > might be a nice thing to fall back on, I can't justify it over being > able to add user accounts. You missed this section: The /rescue tools are compiled using crunchgen(1), which makes them considerably more compact than the standard utilities. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com