Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:36:12 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much space for / Message-ID: <200306200136.12421.andrew@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <20030619165936.31801716.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> References: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> <44ptl9hkt8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030619165936.31801716.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 10:59 pm, sweetleaf wrote: > well here is the output for / > 226990 ./root > 24076 ./sbin > 281305 . > # > > > > so what it appears that . is the culprit, correct. I am still learning to > read the du command. No - /root is the culprit. Look at all those .something directories inside /root. They are created when you run an application as root and it wants to save data inside the user's home directory. For normal users their home directory is /home/username but for root the home directory is /root. Check if you actually need any of that data thats hanging around in /root. I'd be very surprised if you actually did. Folders like .slypheed and .GNUstep could most likely be removed I suspect. HTH Andrew.
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