civileme said:

> On Monday 10 March 2003 04:02 am, Brian wrote:
>> On Monday 10 March 2003 07:54 am, civileme wrote:
>> > On Monday 10 March 2003 03:17 am, Mark Weaver wrote:
>> > > Hi list,
>> > >
>> > > I noticed this yesterday after receiving an error message from
>> Mozilla
>> > > that it couldn't send a message. So far I've been all over the
>> > > filesystem every way I know how, but still can't find a reason for
>> this
>> > > condition.
>> > >
>> > > So far I've phyiscally examined the filesystem with mc and du to see
>> if
>> > > I could find an extra large file somewhere, but nothing is popping
>> out.
>> > > The only thing on the "/" filesystem is everything but /var and
>> /usr.
>> > > I'm suspicious of the manner in which /mnt may be affecting the root
>> > > filesystem.
>> > >
>> > > Any ideas?
>> > >
>> > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > > /dev/hda1             718M  674M  7.6M  99% /
>> > > none                   62M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm
>> > > /dev/hda10            618M  308M  310M  50% /home
>> > > /dev/hdc1             643M  611M     0 100% /mnt/arc
>> > > /dev/hda11            3.5G  2.1G  1.2G  61% /mnt/arc_2
>> > > /dev/hda6             1.4G  1.4G   26M  99% /usr
>> > > /dev/hda7             934M  538M  349M  61% /var
>> > > /dev/hda9             3.9G  906M  2.8G  24% /var/ftp
>> > > /dev/hda8             1.1G  179M  869M  18% /var/www
>> >
>> > try this
>> >
>> > open a terminal
>> > su to root
>> >
>> > # mkdir -p /var/www/maxis
>> > # rm -r /tmp -f
>> > # ln -d /var/www/maxis /tmp
>> >
>> > mozilla uses /tmp for many things, including reassembling packets from
>> a
>> > download into a file before moving the file to its final destination.
>> > /tmp is in / in your system ...  After this little setting, you should
>> be
>> > good to go even for downloading an .iso file.
>> >

Just jumping into the thread, but have your tried the following:

# cd /etc
# du|sort -n
# cd /tmp
# du|sort -n
# cd /root
# du|sort -n
# cd /opt
# du|sort -n

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