From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 23:18:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C6737B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAK7IdN22860; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:18:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011120004315.L2155@happy.cow.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:19:01 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: ravi pina Subject: Re: / is full!!!! Please help... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom Kersten Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-2001 ravi pina wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:40:07PM -0800, Tom Kersten said at one point in > time: >> Hello all, >> >> My root directory is getting close to being full >> (97+%). It is 45 mb....is this too small??? I >> symlinked the /var directory to /usr/var after >> installation and thought that 45 mb would be >> enough...it says that 30 is sufficient in "The >> Complete FreeBSD"..so I put in a little more just in >> case. Anyway, what is the best way to fix this? I read >> a little bit about the 'growfs' command...but am not >> sure of the *best* way to fix my problem. Any tips are >> appreciated. If you need more detailed information, >> please let me know... > > check /root > that is no doubt your problem. also check where > /tmp is. stale core files too. > If you have made a new kernel there are lots of files in /modules.old that can be removed too. /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message