Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:52:55 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: bsd <bsd@todoo.biz> Cc: Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Reducing the size of / Message-ID: <17508.48487.502992.913521@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4491F65C-CAB7-4B07-95B9-527677A29E6E@todoo.biz> References: <4491F65C-CAB7-4B07-95B9-527677A29E6E@todoo.biz>
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bsd writes: > I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the > size of / because I am getting quite full ! > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ar0s1a 3.8G 2.8G 668M 81% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ar0s1d 60G 1.9G 53G 3% /home > > What are the places I could start looking in to delete not so > usefull files, knowing that I am syncing using portsnat (and > previously cvsup). Try this: du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 50 Look for anything that's bigger than it ought to be. (I run variations of that on each filesystem daily; at this point I know what should be there, and if something changes I ask "Why?".) Robert Huff
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