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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:19:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        damon blom <damon@lanset.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No space on /
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102171907350.41783-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102171530000.12011-200000@www.lanset.com>

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Hi Damon,

The most likely culprit will be directories created by Netscape or your
windows manager in the /root directory. You wouldn't be happening to surf
or using a windows manager like gnome or kde while logged in as the root
user?

What are the outputs of the following commands:

df

du /root

Dru


On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, damon blom wrote:

> Hi
>    I am out of space on my root directory. I have freebsd 4.1 on my pc and
> am the only user. I have a large ports file but it is on /var. Just
> offhand where should I look to delete files? There is not that much in my
> own directory.
>    Is there an easy way to make / larger?
>    I want to do a make world to upgade to 4.2
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated, 
>        Thanks
>           Damon
> 





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