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Re: Re[2]: Creeping /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Thu Nov 14 12:41:48 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:27:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199611141623.LAA21074@sullivan.bentley.com>
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Did you check for things like news, /var/spool/mail, /var/log stuff ?
Log files grow, Email grows, News grows, assuming you don't have a
separate place for these...
THX
-AEF
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Mark Hamstra wrote:
> Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
> >
> > > My / partition,device,file has expanded and become 100% full, and very
> > > little will work now. Is there a fix for this?
> > >
> > > Why does this happen?
> >
> > Perhaps you have installed more software, perhaps log files have filled up
> > in /var, perhaps temporary files have accumulated in /tmp - look around
> > and find out ;-)
> >
> > > I've got a 30 MB extended partition set aside for /. That should, surely,
> > > be big enough for almost anything I might want to do. This is home
> >
> > 30 MB is quite small, comparitively speaking. I've had a system installed
> > in under 30 megs, but there was nothing of interest to me on it ;-) My
> > average disk space usage now is around 300 megs, and I have another 400
> > megs or so waiting to be used, on my /. Of course, it depends what you do
> > on your system - if all you do is use it basically as a terminal, 30M
> > should be enough.
>
> Look for one of those *&!% packages that installs into /opt, too. If you don't
> have /opt linked to some more reasonable location, then one of these can fill up
> your / fast.
>
> Mark Hamstra
> Bentley Systems, Inc.
>
>
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