From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 8:14:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2EF37BA1A for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2VGdnr29106; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:39:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: What is needed in /stand Message-ID: <20000331083948.J21029@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38E4CACD.177A6202@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38E4CACD.177A6202@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:57:01AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Stephen Montgomery-Smith [000331 08:21] wrote: > Now I have upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, I am finding that I am > getting less and less room in the root mount point / . > (I gave it 32M). > > I was looking through / to see what is not needed, and I see > a bunch of old files in /stand. What is needed and what can > I delete? > > # cd /stand > # ls -l > total 22373 > -r-xr-xr-x 18 root wheel 1219512 Oct 17 1998 -sh > -r-xr-xr-x 18 root wheel 1219512 Oct 17 1998 bad144 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1030 Oct 17 1998 boot.help Unless you did something weird, all those files are actually the same file, 'ls -i' will show you they share the same inode, deleteting or more of them isn't going to help unless you delete them all and then you'll only free up under a megabyte. I'd symlink /tmp to /var/tmp instead or look for another place taking up space. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child, I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message