Thank you for the explanation forsnick.

Seg, du command that I run does not care wether directories are on separate partitions or not. On this server, /usr, /opt, /export/home, and /var are all on their own partitions so removing things from them would not solve my problem.

I have found stuff to remove for now until we rebuild this old server with an appropraite size /.
Thanks all.

Sara-sh,
I was responding to the original poster. I see now that you resurrected an old thread to bring up your point- my reply was not intended to match your situation.

Sorry about the confussion Seg ...

You guys are great, thanks for sharing the knowledge, appreciate it.

Thanks Bejo, that is a good point. However the quetion is, was there any disk space released as a result of the reboot, was there more space in / directory after the reboot?
Thanks again ...

Thanks again

After you reboot your machine /proc capacity wil be 0%.


Best Regards

Bejo

Um, rebooting and making "/proc going to normal again" is flawed reasoning and not sound advice technically. /proc appears to grow larger as your machine runs because it contains a representation of running applications memory (NOT DISK) space. So, rebooting makes /proc smaller because you're no longer running those applications. As soon as you start running applications again, /proc will grow as memory gets addressed. This is normal behavior!

>>> /proc has nothing whatsoever to do with disk space. <<<

Side note: don't reboot Unix machines arbitrarily, it makes Unix admins sad.

I am having the similar problem too. proc and dev have taken up huge amount of the space. Will a reboot clear dev too? Currently /home2, 3 and 4 are on different slices.