From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 16:16:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD53637B56F for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3PNGMM20503; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:16:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004252316.e3PNGMM20503@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: John Daniel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I filled up / directory looking for a remedy In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:16:22 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:38:30 -0400 (EDT) John Daniel wrote: +------------------ | 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.) | | 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 +------------------ 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 -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message