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From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
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Subject: RE: root partition
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what partitions do you have seperate from /?  /usr and /home?

most likely /var and /root are going to be growing if that is the case, 
and /root is only going to grow if you add files yourself, /var will grow 
as the logs grow.  keep an eye on /var

jason

> 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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