Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:09:27 +0000 From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Files in / Message-ID: <FADEF472-E4FC-4C41-9572-940A6DC3DA4C@glasgow.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <66B63BE11669F00AA754FE87@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <66B63BE11669F00AA754FE87@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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Paul, hello. On 4 Dec 2018, at 6:37, Paul Schmehl wrote: > When I use ls -lsah /root, I get a completely different list of files. > > But neither of these utilities show 627M used in root. Why can't I see > what's using all this space in root? Am I using the wrong utilities to > view the files? Is it something else? The confusion may arise from an incomplete understanding of the term 'the root filesystem'. That term refers to the filesystem starting at '/' (or, more precisely, the on-disk structure which is mounted at the root directory '/'). That's distinct from '/root', which is merely a directory which is the home directory of the user called 'root', which lives under '/'. There's no real connection between these two uses of the word 'root', but now you come to mention it, I can see where confusion is possible. As Michael says, there's other stuff in the root directory '/': % ls -F / COPYRIGHT etc/ mnt/ root/ var/ bin/ home/ net/ sbin/ zroot/ boot/ lib/ pool/ sys@ dev/ libexec/ proc/ tmp/ entropy media/ rescue/ usr/ There is more detail in <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/dirstructure.html>, and the 'Disk Organization' chapter it links to. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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