Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:44:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: nkinkade@dsl-only.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd -) Subject: Re: can't find certain doc Message-ID: <200210231744.g9NHic724712@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <OFF8E1A26C.AEF1B9E1-ON88256C5B.005C5F6B-88256C5B.005D1B8E@simrad.no> from "chip.wiegand@simrad.com" at Oct 23, 2002 09:52:58 AM
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> > 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 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. or just: cd / du -sk * But, no matter what they try to tell you, 150 MB is awfully small for the root partition now days. At that size you would have to manage stuff pretty tightly. The thing you would have to do is have a nice pristine system and do the du. Then when it starts to fill up, do a new du and compare to see what has been growing. Do you have logs going somewhere besides root? What about root's Email? Do you do any tinkering as root that might leave some files around. All these things can use up that little space quickly. Anyway, about the only things you can do are to look for files to delete or directories to move to a different partition with a sym-link and/or to redo your partitions to make root a little bigger (250MB at least) either on that disk or get a new bigger disk and start clean. ////jerry > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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