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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:45:20 -0700
From:      Michelle Weeks <tristan11@mindspring.com>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: / slice full
Message-ID:  <9AD63866-8D4C-11D6-BF42-00039368B8EC@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020701162206.P41191-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>

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> A process could have a file open that you've since deleted.  This 
> wouldn't
> show up in ls, but it's still there.

how can i tell if this is happening?  when i run top, i don't see 
anything unusual.

>
> If you're out of space I'd make sure that /tmp is *not* on the root
> partition, but is a symlink to /var/tmp.

this is a good idea which i will do, but so far /tmp is just 5k
>
> You can also probably safely delete /modules.old as well.
>
> You can also run "cd /; du -hcsx *"  This will tell you how much space
> each directory is.  The -x prevents it from traversing file systems so 
> it
> won't look in /usr and /var.

when i run du -hcsx it give the output:

124M    .
124M    total


>
> good luck!
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote:
>
>> i am getting an error message from our freebsd 4.5 server that the
>> kernel folder is too full.  when i do a df of the file systems it shows
>> the / slice to be at 108% capacity; however when i do a long list of 
>> the
>> directories under root, it doesn't appear that root should be full.
>> i'm very new to freebsd and can't figure out what could be causing
>> this.  i have recently set up raid1 on using vinum on 2 additional scsi
>> drives.  not sure if this would have anything to do with it.
>>
>> thank you for any input,
>> michelle
>>
>


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