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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:58:56 -0700
From:      Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clean up / filesystem
Message-ID:  <op.vkbisimcesa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net>
In-Reply-To: <19632.463.52069.211565@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:

>
> Caleb Stein writes:
>
>>  I'm constantly getting the message, ":/ write failed, filesystem
>>  is full", so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at
>>  108%.  What files can I delete to free some space?
>
> 	Start by checking the contents of /tmp.
> 	Any *.core in /root you don't recognize is suspect.
> 	After that?  Try:
>
> 	du -x / | sort -n -r | head -n 40
>
> 	Look in those directories.
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>
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So is it safe to do "rm -rf /tmp/*"?



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