From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 16:29:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1640E37B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:29:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-118-73.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.118.73]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14UHii-0005NG-00; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:28:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:19:49 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com To: damon blom Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No space on / In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message