roys2...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone please tell me how I can clean my root partition? > > df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0a 2.0G 2.0G -101M 105% / > /dev/wd0k 830G 84.7G 704G 11% /home > /dev/wd0d 3.9G 40.0K 3.7G 0% /tmp > /dev/wd0f 49.2G 888M 45.9G 2% /usr > /dev/wd0g 2.0G 159M 1.7G 8% /usr/X11R6 > /dev/wd0h 7.9G 2.2G 5.2G 30% /usr/local > /dev/wd0j 3.9G 70.6M 3.7G 2% /usr/obj > /dev/wd0i 3.9G 683M 3.1G 18% /usr/src > /dev/wd0e 7.9G 68.7M 7.4G 1% /var > > When I look in my /root partition, there is only 1mb
uh... / != /root. Or in engrish, your root partition ( "/" ) is not the same as the "/root" directory (which is one of many things in that partition). You don't have a /root partition according to that (nor is there reason to have one, normally) Start with doing something like this: $ cd / $ sudo du -hs * 2.0K altroot 6.2M bin 6.9M bsd 2.3M bsd.rd 6.9M bsd.sp 40.0K dev 3.6M etc 1.0G home 2.0K mnt 50.0K ofwboot 14.0K root 15.2M sbin 2.0K stand 0B sys 2.0K tmp 1.3G usr 7.6M var (that's a sparc64 machine, so the binaries in my /bin, /sbin and similar are probably much bigger than yours) Now, everything that isn't in your list above in df -h is ignored, as it is in a separate partition. The rest is stuff sitting simply in your root partition. Being that you have a rather large root partition, you have something that has gone horribly wrong, not just casual "oops, put a few too many files someplace". And this probably also means you are doing things as root you should be doing, as nothing in the / is normally writable by ordinary users. Common place to do things wrong: /dev (i.e., bigoutput >/dev/nul will create a big file in the /dev directory, rather than "/dev/null", which is the bitbucket device. Another thing that can happen is you can have data in (for example) the /usr directory of the root device BEFORE you mount the /usr partition at that location. That's a bit icky to fix sometimes, booting bsd.rd and poking around is sometimes productive. Nick.
