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From: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
To: "'Jason P Holland'" <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: root partition
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:21:22 -0500
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here is the result of my 
du -sh *
6.0K    COPYRIGHT
3.9M    bin
390K    boot
2.0K    cdrom
  0B    compat
 70K    dev
2.0K    dist
998K    etc
636M    home
4.0M    kernel
3.5M    kernel.GENERIC
2.0K    mnt
5.1M    modules
2.0K    mycd
 17K    proc
 99M    root
 11M    sbin
2.1M    stand
  0B    sys
8.0K    tmp

1.8G    usr
 11M    var


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:03 PM
To: Henning, Brian
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: root partition



hmm, that is a bit low.  you could investigate what is filling up?  try a 

cd /
du -sh *

periodically, that should help you narrow down what is filling up.  it 
might be the logs in /var though

jason

> Hello-
> I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine / and
> /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to this
> partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just
create
> a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here?
> thanks,
> brian
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