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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2018 08:40:18 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Files in /
Message-ID:  <23558.33730.773326.914041@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <FADEF472-E4FC-4C41-9572-940A6DC3DA4C@glasgow.ac.uk>
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Norman Gray writes:

	<clear and correct explanation elided>

	And - if you're trying to track down what's gobbling disk space -
try this, aimed at the suspect directory:

	du -k | sort -n -r | head -n 25

	I run a variant of this overnight and mail myself the output;
understand what should be there and it will be glaringly obvious when
something's wrong.


		Respectfully,


				Robert Huff



	



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