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Hello,

Somehow my FreeBSD server has filled up its root directory. FILELIGHT shows no free space. I have already gotten rid of /boot/GENERIC and /BOOT/kernel.old (thinking these were really in / and not just linked) but that did no good. I'm too much of a noob to know what to prune out of my / directory (which is only 512MB, but I don't want to have to try resizing it, since I see what that involves). Any help MUCH APPRECIATED!

BTW I can no longer boot in single user mode (I assume this is because I removed /boot/GENERIC?

Thanks,

Leon

PS My slices are /, /var, /tmp and /usr

My / directory listing shows as follows:

$ ls -al
total 333
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 1024 Jan 29 11:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 1024 Jan 29 11:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 801 Jan 12 2007 .cshrc
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Oct 23 07:32 .mozilla
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 251 Jan 12 2007 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Oct 23 07:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Jan 29 11:55 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 23 07:11 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 11:13 command
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Oct 23 07:15 compat -> usr/compat
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Dec 31 1969 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 23 07:11 dist
-rw------- 1 root wheel 4096 Jan 17 09:44 entropy
drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 2560 Jan 29 09:32 etc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 8 Oct 23 07:47 home -> usr/home
-rw------- 1 root wheel 262144 Jan 29 11:25 kdm-bin.core
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Oct 23 07:11 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 23 07:11 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 12 2007 media
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 512 Jan 7 10:54 mnt
drwxr-xr-t 3 root wheel 512 Dec 19 10:28 package
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 12 2007 proc
drwxrwxrwx 40 root wheel 1536 Jan 7 11:16 product
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Oct 23 07:11 rescue
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 1024 Jan 29 11:56 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2560 Oct 23 07:11 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 19 11:13 service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Oct 23 07:11 sys -> usr/src/sys
drwxrwxrwt 41 root wheel 1024 Jan 29 11:55 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 Jan 23 09:14 usr
drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 512 Jan 29 06:51 var

That core file would be a good place to start (kdm-bin.core).
Otherwise:

Code:

du -skd * / | sort -n

Then look at things with large sizes. If you wish, you can pick a big directory and run the du command again (replace / with the dir name) to see what's overly large in there.

Also, /product looks suspicious, it's publicly writable (incredibly bad) and not on it's own partition. I'd bet your problem is in there somewhere.