Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:42:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: davidd@datasphereweb.com (David Daugherty) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / is filling up Message-ID: <200306031842.h53IghFg020641@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <40407D2F1E422A49B03C3437FEB986450103F426@RED-MSG-23.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> from "David Daugherty" at Jun 03, 2003 11:07:36 AM
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> > My / partition is getting pretty full, 92%. Usually the culprit is something > I'm not rotating in /var/log, but that's not the case this time. Does anyone > have any suggestions to find out where this is? I'm guessing it's probably > something using ls and sort but I'll be damned if I can put something > together that helps this problem. What have you tried? Usually I use successive runs of du(1) to track down overfilling culprits. Are you familiar with that? CD to your root (/) run du -sk * cd in to any suspiciously large directories and do another du, etc. By the way, I think it is good practice to make a separate file system for things like /var/log /var/spool and others that can fill up suddenly when you aren't looking. That way they won't trash the root file system and bring the system down (so easily). ////jerry > > David Daugherty >
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