Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:10:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /rescue is huge!! Message-ID: <20040706021028.GO6574@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200407060259.08128.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> References: <200407060229.03972.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> <20040706013649.GN6574@dan.emsphone.com> <200407060259.08128.rtb27@cam.ac.uk>
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In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said: > 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! If at some point you had copied /rescue with cp (instead of a tar pipe or something else that preserves hardlinks), you would have gotten a separate file for each link. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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