Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:16:22 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: John Daniel <john@cell-works.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I filled up / directory looking for a remedy Message-ID: <200004252316.e3PNGMM20503@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004251824480.28712-100000@cell-works.com>
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:38:30 -0400 (EDT) John Daniel wrote:
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| I think I made a mistake and filled up my root partition by installing
| packages as root. ( I'm guessing base on a message I found in a search of
| questions archive.)
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| How can I remedy the situation?
|
| Also what is the best way to avoid the problem in the future?
|
| my root partition is 50megs which should be enough.
| created a separate /var, /usr when I installed.
|
| TIA
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Run something like
du -x / | sort -n
As root to find the big directories. Then concider moving them to a
different spindle.
If you find that /tmp is on the root partition concider making it an MFS.
If /var or /usr are on root then you have a bigger job ahead.
chris
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