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Subject: Re: /rescue is huge!!
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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