[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

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