From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 9:56:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACE637B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B8E43E3B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip.wiegand@simrad.com) In-Reply-To: <20021023160241.GA270@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Subject: Re: can't find certain doc Sensitivity: To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Cc: freebsd - X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.0 September 26, 2002 Message-ID: From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:52:58 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 23.10.2002 18:56:51 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 10/23/2002 09:02:41 AM: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com 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 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