Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 01:02:40 -0500 From: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: disk usage reporting Message-ID: <331BBB00.41C67EA6@rma.edu>
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To all:
Using df to look at my disk space, I get some confusing reports:
free capacity mounted
on
/dev/wd0a -1282 104% /
/dev/wd0s4f etc etc
The first entry perplexes me. According to the disk label editor, the
name of the disk is wd0, and the freebsd partition name is wd0s4, and
the file systems are wd0s4a...f. (This is a 1.6mb hard drive with three
primary dos partitions and one freebsd partition with the autodefaults
for file system allocation). Is the wd0a file system mentioned above
the root file system, and is it filling up because I log on as root and
all my mail and web caches are there? Why is it /dev/wd0a and not
/dev/wd0s4a? Perhaps these are the wages of the evil sin of logging on
as root--perhaps if I had a /usr/home directory I wouldn't be running
out of space. Any suggestions on how to handle this problem in the
future (relocate mail and disk caches--a temporary fix?), are my
suppositions correct, and what about the file system name
discrepancies. Any light shed on these matters would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Michael
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