Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:17:18 -0600 From: James <mlistbsd@icorp.net> To: Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Cc: Rick Morel <rmorel@morelr.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root File System Full Message-ID: <38BEB02E.C80ED801@icorp.net> References: <2.2.32.20000301142236.006a3810@mail.morelr.com> <20000301144255.Q82538@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
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Stuart Henderson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:22:36AM -0600, Rick Morel wrote: > > Many thanks to Phil Allsopp <phil@virtek.com> and wellsian > > <wellsian@caffeine.com> for super rapid replies. > > > > I forgot that /etc is really under /. > > You might consider moving and symlinking it to a > different partition. From someone that learned the > hard way some time ago, you probably don't want to > do that :-) Doh! I tried that when I first got into Unix. Big mistake. The partitions wouldn't mount because /etc/fstab was moved to a secondary partition and couldn't be found during the boot process! It was loads of fun trying to fix.. Whenever I notice that disk space is getting tight, I run: find / -size +5000000c -print -ls this gives me a list of any file 5MB or larger - often helps to track down balooning files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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