Jason Hunt wrote: > In the midst of setting up my laptop (fresh install of 5.6), I found I was > out of space on root:: > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd1a 1005M 1004M -49.2M 105% / > /dev/sd1k 49.2G 1.4G 45.3G 3% /home > /dev/sd1d 3.9G 138K 3.7G 0% /tmp > /dev/sd1f 2.0G 917M 995M 48% /usr > /dev/sd1g 1005M 191M 764M 20% /usr/X11R6 > /dev/sd1h 9.8G 1015M 8.4G 11% /usr/local > /dev/sd1j 2.0G 2.0K 1.9G 0% /usr/obj > /dev/sd1i 2.0G 2.0K 1.9G 0% /usr/src > /dev/sd1e 11.2G 9.2M 10.6G 0% /var > > The culprit: looks to be /dev: > > # du -sh /dev > 938M /dev > > But I don't understand why /dev would be using so much space? Nothing > looks out of place in /dev, but there sure is a lot of files (more than I > expected): > > # ls -l /dev | wc -l > 1173
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