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Date:      Sat, 9 Oct 2010 01:46:55 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        "Caleb Stein" <calebzstein@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Clean up / filesystem
Message-ID:  <19632.463.52069.211565@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vkakpz1j0i70i3@win7x64.mshome.net>
References:  <op.vkakpz1j0i70i3@win7x64.mshome.net>

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Caleb Stein writes:

>  I'm constantly getting the message, ":/ write failed, filesystem
>  is full", so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
>  108%.  What files can I delete to free some space?

	Start by checking the contents of /tmp.
	Any *.core in /root you don't recognize is suspect.
	After that?  Try:

	du -x / | sort -n -r | head -n 40

	Look in those directories.


					Robert Huff




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