Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:59:08 +0100 From: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /rescue is huge!! Message-ID: <200407060259.08128.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040706013649.GN6574@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200407060229.03972.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> <20040706013649.GN6574@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 2:36 am, you wrote: > 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. > That's very strange if true, because since deleting the "/rescue" folder, the used space on / has gone from 550Mb+ to 129Mb. I can't check the inodes now, as I have `rm`ed them all! Rich
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