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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.




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