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Subject: Re: determining the space used in / partition
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:12 +0200, zszalbot@gmail.com confabulated:

> hello,
>
> Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space:
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    198126   196070   -13794   108%    /
> devfs               1        1        0   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1e  44511308  4217762 36732642    10%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1d  30462636  3210580 24815046    11%    /var
> devfs               1        1        0   100%    /var/named/dev
> /dev/da0s1c  75685352 34308200 35322324    49%    /mnt/usbck
>
> How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not
> big as you can see. So I issued:
> du -hs /
> but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all
> directories on the HD?
>
> Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space.
> Were it for /usr or /var,  it would be obvious to me where to look for
> information.
>
> Many thanks!

I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up 
all the space. Try:

   du -h /tmp

and see how much /tmp is taking up.

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