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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:30:41 -0700
From:      chip.wiegand@simrad.com
To:        John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
Cc:        chip.wiegand@simrad.com, nkinkade@dsl-only.net, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd - <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: can't find certain doc
Message-ID:  <OF2E2FAB04.96ECFC38-ON88256C5B.00600178-88256C5B.00608FB5@simrad.no>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210231259560.20835-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>

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owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 10/23/2002 10:01:24 AM:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote:
> > 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

I understand that, it's not the whole hard drive, just the root partition.
There's
15gigs available on the /usr partition.

--
chip


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