From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 16:44: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from barnes1.wustl.edu (barnes1.wustl.edu [128.252.162.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36B514BF8 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by barnes1.wustl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id SAA92531 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:48:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wayne) From: Wayne M Barnes Message-Id: <199912020048.SAA92531@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: 22 Mb hidden,wasted To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:48:43 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSDers, One of my partitions (the one where I collect mail) just filled up accidentally (and I lost 2 days worth of email, somehow). This partition was little-used, I thought, but when this happened I found that a directory listing shows 22246 bytes in the root of this partition, with no files or anything that I can delete. I have deleted 5 Mb of stuff to get by with until I solve this problem. How did this space get taken up, and how can I reclaim it? Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu Biochemistry Dept. 8231 Washington Univ. Medical School 314.362.3351 fax 7183 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110 http://barnes1.wustl.edu Just plain Taq is old tech anymore. APPENDIX: Script started on Wed Dec 1 18:35:41 1999 root@barnes1:/drive2var>ls -laF=0D total 13 drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Dec 1 15:12 ./ drwxr-xr-x 26 root wheel 1024 Nov 17 08:53 ../ drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Apr 15 1998 at/ drwxr-x--- 2 root wheel 512 Feb 23 1999 backups/ drwxr-x--- 3 root wheel 512 Feb 20 1999 cron/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 1997 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1536 Oct 1 1996 etcsave/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Dec 1 17:10 mail/ drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 512 Apr 15 1998 msgs/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 24 1999 run/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root daemon 512 Oct 21 1997 rwho/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 22 1999 yp/ root@barnes1:/drive2var>du=0D 1 ./at/jobs 1 ./at/spool 3 ./at 15 ./backups 2 ./cron/tabs 31 ./cron 21719 ./mail 2 ./msgs 52 ./run 1 ./rwho 19 ./yp 17 ./etcsave/uucp 2 ./etcsave/gnats 1 ./etcsave/kerberosIV 15 ./etcsave/mtree 7 ./etcsave/namedb 12 ./etcsave/ppp 402 ./etcsave 1 ./etc 22246 .=0D <--- *** THIS IS MY PROBLEM !!! root@barnes1:/drive2var>df=0D Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 64455 23847 35452 40% / /dev/wd0s1f 2660974 1387697 1060400 57% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 59519 11311 43447 21% /var /dev/wd2s1a 31775 24761 4472 85% /drive2 /dev/wd2s1f 6005438 4476317 1048686 81% /drive2usr /dev/wd2s1e 29727 22246 5103 81% /drive2var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc root@barnes1:/drive2var>mount=0D /dev/wd0s1a on / (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 29172 async 327752) /dev/wd0s1f on /usr (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 4479 async 401510) /dev/wd0s1e on /var (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 29060 async 203122) /dev/wd2s1a on /drive2 (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 2 async 144) /dev/wd2s1f on /drive2usr (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 197822 async 4= 76500) /dev/wd2s1e on /drive2var (NFS exported, local, writes: sync 6190 async 163= 40) procfs on /proc (local) root@barnes1:/drive2var>exit=0D exit Script done on Wed Dec 1 18:36:03 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message