[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/23/2002 09:02:41 AM: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I saw a doc called something like 'what to do if your hard drive > > gets full'. I checked the docs > > the freebsd.org and couldn't find anything like that. Is there a doc out > > there some place that tells me > > what to do when the root partition fills up, for no apparent reason? This > > machine is strictly a web > > backup box and rarely is used for anything else, yet the root partition is > > at 104%.
> Try: > # cd / > # du -h -d 1 -I usr That helps a lot, thanks, though I still haven't found any one particularly large file or directory. In /var/db/pkg is about 14megs, is it okay to clear that stuff? And in . is kernel and kernel.generic, do I need both of these? I have gotten the du down to 98% so far, on a 150meg / partition. -- chip > This should tell you how much space each file/dir is using in /, > excluding, the 'usr'. Some of the other dirs are bound to be > mounted filesystems, but ignore those. Exluding 'usr' just saves > a lot of time, as `du' doesn't have to calculate that beast of a > filesystem. > Nathan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
