Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:14:11 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / partition full Message-ID: <20090313235805.I4210@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20090313120024.5E27B10656E6@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090313120024.5E27B10656E6@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:33:53 +1000 Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> wrote: > I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making > things in terms of building world & kernel a lil difficult .. what's the > command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so > i can free it up ? # du -xd1 / | sort -rn | head -7 167521 / 81728 /root 56918 /boot 7630 /rescue 4354 /sbin 3550 /lib 3058 /etc sola# du -xd1 /root | sort -rn | head -7 81728 /root 30526 /root/build 23400 /root/mail 7020 /root/p45 4402 /root/bin 842 /root/from_4_5 552 /root/.kde sola# du -xd1 /boot | sort -rn | head -7 56918 /boot 20048 /boot/kernel 17974 /boot/kernel.old 17968 /boot/kernel.55S_2 18 /boot/defaults 2 /boot/modules You want -x to not descend into mounts such as /usr or /var. Replace -d1 with --max-depth=1 if you like extra typing, or are using linux :) cheers, Ian
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