Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:32:44 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>, "'Jason P Holland'" <jholland@cs.selu.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: root partition Message-ID: <018801c21ba5$26ca4860$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894914@exchange.Navitaire.com>
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See the "99M root" entry? Close to 2/3 of your disk usage is in root's home directory. My first reaction is "oh, you must be using root as your normal login, and root's homedir is filled with all sorts of user information, like KDE configuration, bookmarks, netscape cache, etc." If this is true, please create a normal user account and use it for your day-to-day stuff, and save root for system administration (adding packages, adjusting configurations, etc.) That may not be the case entirely. Other culprits include CPAN, which can easily add a few hundred MB to root's homedir. Run the same comment from root's home directory (/root) and see what is using up space. -- Matt Emmerton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com> To: "'Jason P Holland'" <jholland@cs.selu.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: RE: root partition > here is the result of my > du -sh * > 6.0K COPYRIGHT > 3.9M bin > 390K boot > 2.0K cdrom > 0B compat > 70K dev > 2.0K dist > 998K etc > 636M home > 4.0M kernel > 3.5M kernel.GENERIC > 2.0K mnt > 5.1M modules > 2.0K mycd > 17K proc > 99M root > 11M sbin > 2.1M stand > 0B sys > 8.0K tmp > > 1.8G usr > 11M var > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason P Holland [mailto:jholland@cs.selu.edu] > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:03 PM > To: Henning, Brian > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: root partition > > > > hmm, that is a bit low. you could investigate what is filling up? try a > > cd / > du -sh * > > periodically, that should help you narrow down what is filling up. it > might be the logs in /var though > > jason > > > Hello- > > I keep having a problem with filling up my root partition. I combine / and > > /var with 150M of space. Is that enough space? I don't copy files to this > > partition so I don't really know how it would fill up? Should I just > create > > a bigger partition or is there something I am missing here? > > thanks, > > brian > > > > 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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