From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 10: 6: 7 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 F019537B404 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3943E42 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 5871E4FC9F; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:01:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FB44A0E; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:01:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: nkinkade@dsl-only.net, freebsd - Subject: Re: can't find certain doc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:52:58 -0700 > From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com > To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net > Cc: freebsd - > Subject: Re: can't find certain doc > > > 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. > /var/db/pkg is (I think) your packages and ports database. I don't think you want to remove that. The best thing to do when your hard drive gets full is get another, bigger one. They're cheap :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message