On Tuesday 06 July 2004 2:36 am, you wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said: > > I recently tried to add a user to my FreeBSD box, but was amazed to > > find that the / partition was full! I had a look, and the culprit is > > the "/rescue" folder, holding 135 statically linked binaries of > > nearly 4Mb each, giving a folder size of 491Mb! > > Check the inode number of each file in /rescue (ls -li /rescue). > You'll notice they're all the same, which means they're all hardlinks > to the same file. "du /rescue" should report under 4MB. > > Your space is probably being taken up somewhere else. >
That's very strange if true, because since deleting the "/rescue" folder, the used space on / has gone from 550Mb+ to 129Mb. I can't check the inodes now, as I have `rm`ed them all! Rich _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
