Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/23/2002 10:44:38 AM:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/23/2002 09:02:41 AM: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I thought I saw a doc called something like 'what to do if your hard > > drive > > > > gets full'. I checked the docs > > > > the freebsd.org and couldn't find anything like that. Is there a doc > > out > > > > there some place that tells me > > > > what to do when the root partition fills up, for no apparent reason? > > This is at 104%. > > > > > Try: > > > # cd / > > > # du -h -d 1 -I usr > > > > That helps a lot, thanks, though I still haven't found any one particularly > > large file or directory. In /var/db/pkg is about 14megs, is it okay to > > clear > > that stuff? And in . is kernel and kernel.generic, do I need both of these? > > I have gotten the du down to 98% so far, on a 150meg / partition. > or just: > cd / > du -sk * > But, no matter what they try to tell you, 150 MB is awfully > small for the root partition now days. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind tonight when I set up a new box at home. :) -- Chip > At that size you would > have to manage stuff pretty tightly. The thing you would have > to do is have a nice pristine system and do the du. Then when > it starts to fill up, do a new du and compare to see what has > been growing. Do you have logs going somewhere besides root? > What about root's Email? Do you do any tinkering as root that > might leave some files around. All these things can use up that > little space quickly. > Anyway, about the only things you can do are to look for files to delete > or directories to move to a different partition with a sym-link and/or > to redo your partitions to make root a little bigger (250MB at least) > either on that disk or get a new bigger disk and start clean. > ////jerry > > -- > > chip > > > > > This should tell you how much space each file/dir is using in /, > > > excluding, the 'usr'. Some of the other dirs are bound to be > > > mounted filesystems, but ignore those. Exluding 'usr' just saves > > > a lot of time, as `du' doesn't have to calculate that beast of a > > > filesystem. > > > > > Nathan > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
