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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:18:31 -0800
From:      James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
To:        Ben Williams <benwilliams@instantemail.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP! root partition full!
Message-ID:  <20030130131831.A17859@ns.museum.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <99184732771.20030130161245@instantemail.net>; from benwilliams@instantemail.net on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:12:45PM -0500
References:  <20030130170550.GA726@sentinelchicken.net> <017301c2c8a2$2283b7f0$732ced18@admin> <99184732771.20030130161245@instantemail.net>

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:12:45PM -0500, Ben Williams wrote:
> 
> BR> Use df to find the file thats filling your root:
> 
> BR>  du -a -x /usr | sort -rn | tee /tmp/root-space
> 
>    Wont the tee will cause this to fail because:
>  /dev/ad0s1a          516062  505036   -30258   106%    /
> ?
> 

Many administrators feel that best practice is, at installation time,
to rmdir /tmp and ln -s /var/tmp /tmp

If tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp, then no, tee will not fail.  His
/var has oodles of space.



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