From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 18:33:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540A1106567E for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE068FC1B for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:33:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so7685912faa.13 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:33:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=OshYfwmtWlD14xEzSRDJhu+BFA7F6eTHfkMC1koVqBM=; b=cKQ1naOZa00gRpiuw4hvSUm2qKPmosBEu3kKGx7NVBW08eEiDWzQ+njHawj0YQ0Hsi /Txn9f7fKVjfi+FXUmiE2J43CnyfaVEEmAyqa71UNVKwuoeJ3pq02ff7oH39jFbuFFRg FHSDD3XICbHtZTGryajwvgCQ1h9bUSY7kYbgo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.17.23 with SMTP id q23mr48630764faa.11.1320690821790; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:33:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.88.72 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:33:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1320687592.41253.YahooMailNeo@web121804.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:33:41 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Michael Sierchio Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: rtsit , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:33:43 -0000 On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > > > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's > using > > the space and to recover it. You should use them. > > If there are files hidden by a covering mount, you won't find them > when those filesystems are mounted. > > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no matter how much butter you put on it. -- Adam Vande More