Date: 18 Feb 2004 17:48:24 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Will Prater <lists-wp@mercurycloud.net> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root is full Message-ID: <44oerwf1hj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <250472C4-624D-11D8-A53A-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> References: <250472C4-624D-11D8-A53A-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net>
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Will Prater <lists-wp@mercurycloud.net> writes: > My root partition is full, but I cannot figure out how it got filled > so fast the last security check claimed there to be 5% of capacity and > now its at 108%. Where else can I check to see what is filling the > root partition? "du -x /" will tell you what is using space (but note that deleting a file doesn't help until every process holding the file open also closes it). Also see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL
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