Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:44:07 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/ad1s1a keeps growing! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102111329030.16154-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <01021110500701.00299@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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Hi Joe, If you haven't built a new kernel, the culprit is usually files in the /root directory. This directory won't be a problem though if you don't surf or do general non-superuser stuff using the root account. To doublecheck, you can use this command which will show the amount of space each file occupies sorted by size: du /root | sort -rn | more Delete the files you don't need and do your surfing, emailing and X apps as a regular user. To keep /tmp from filling up, add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/swapdevicename /tmp mfs rw 0 0 where /dev/swapdevicename is the same devicename as the first line in your /etc/fstab-- it will have the word swap on that line. Double-check your change before you save it. Then type: mount /tmp to mount the memory file system. Cheers, Dru On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Joe Warner wrote: > > Hi, > > I've recently installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my home PC and > haven't really installed many new apps but I'm noticing that > /dev/ad1s1a keeps getting bigger and bigger. > > When I started, it was at sixty something percent and now > it's above eighty! > > Here's what it looks like when I do "df": > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad1s1a 49583 37206 8411 82% / > /dev/ad1s1f 5775733 479668 4834007 9% /usr > /dev/ad1s1e 19815 1506 16724 8% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > I installed xpdf, kmp3, knr, ispell and a couple of xclocks > yesterday and now it's over 80%. > > I've cleaned out my Netscape cache and even deleted > the files in /tmp but it still stays the same. > > Does anyone have any ideas regarding what I can > do to reduce the size of /dev/ad1s1a? > > Thanks > > Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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