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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 22:14:56 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root filesystem full 
Message-ID:  <200005220414.e4M4Eup07940@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <20000522133407.A78939@freebie.lemis.com> 

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On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:34:07 +0930  Greg Lehey wrote:
 +------------------
 | On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 21:00:43 -0700, Steve Leibel wrote:
 | > My / just filled up, here's the output of df:
 | >
 | > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 | > /dev/wd2s1a     39647    38551    -2075   106%    /
 | > /dev/wd2s1f   7803734  3044533  4134903    42%    /usr
 | > /dev/wd2s1e     19815     3008    15222    17%    /var
 | > procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
 | >
 | > What kind of things should I be looking to delete or change?
 | 
 | The ones that have filled up the disk, or anything you don't need.
 | Check the /tmp file system and any .core files.
 +------------------

This situation is not as dire as might be supposed (based on some
responses).

    du -x / | sort -n

will show you the big directories.  Chances are you'll find that
all the space is used in /tmp.  Turn it into an mfs file system and live
happily ever after.

chris

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