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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:19:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        ravi pina <ravi@cow.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: / is full!!!! Please help...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011120081901.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20011120004315.L2155@happy.cow.org>

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On 20-Nov-2001 ravi pina wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:40:07PM -0800, Tom Kersten said at one point in
> time:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> My root directory is getting close to being full
>> (97+%). It is 45 mb....is this too small??? I
>> symlinked the /var directory to /usr/var after
>> installation and thought that 45 mb would be
>> enough...it says that 30 is sufficient in "The
>> Complete FreeBSD"..so I put in a little more just in
>> case. Anyway, what is the best way to fix this? I read
>> a little bit about the 'growfs' command...but am not
>> sure of the *best* way to fix my problem. Any tips are
>> appreciated. If you need more detailed information,
>> please let me know...
> 
> check /root
> that is no doubt your problem. also check where
> /tmp is. stale core files too.
> 

If you have made a new kernel there are lots of files in /modules.old 
that can be removed too.

/M




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