Disk Usage

[Jerry]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:18:57 -0500 (CDT)
Mark <tinguely at casselton.net> articulated:

> 
> The command (as root) will show which directories in the root
> partition use the most space:
> 
>  # du -kx / | sort -n
> 
> Sometime install will backup the boot kernel directory.
> Multiple /boot/kernel* directories can quickly eat up space.

/ $ sudo du -kx / | sort -n
1	/dev
2	/.snap
2	/boot/firmware
2	/boot/zfs
2	/cdrom
2	/etc/ntp
2	/etc/skel
2	/etc/ssl/demoCA/crl
2	/etc/zfs
2	/media
2	/mnt
2	/proc
2	/tmp
2	/usr
2	/var
4	/etc/devd
4	/etc/gnats
4	/etc/ppp
4	/etc/ssl/demoCA/certs
6	/etc/gss
6	/etc/periodic/monthly
6	/etc/ssl/demoCA/private
8	/etc/bluetooth
10	/etc/X11
10	/etc/ssl/demoCA/newcerts
14	/etc/periodic/weekly
14	/etc/ssl/apache-certs
16	/root/kernels
24	/boot/defaults
34	/root
36	/etc/pam.d
36	/etc/security
40	/etc/periodic/security
42	/etc/ssl/demoCA
54	/etc/defaults
56	/etc/periodic/daily
74	/etc/mtree
94	/etc/ssl
118	/etc/periodic
144	/etc/ssh
252	/etc/mail
336	/lib/geom
386	/etc/rc.d
1026	/libexec
1152	/bin
1888	/etc
4416	/rescue
5240	/sbin
7586	/lib
12884	/boot/modules
238354	/boot/kernel.old
240616	/boot/kernel
492826	/boot
514199	/


I am assuming that I can safely delete the contents of
"/boot/kernel.old". It is not that I am in dire need of space but
rather I do not want to risk running out of space in root again. Next
time I will allocate at least 2G to root.

$ df -cih
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    989M    502M    408M    55%    2.9k  138k    2%   /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /dev
/dev/ad0s1d    496M     18K    456M     0%      15   66k    0%   /tmp
/dev/ad0s1e    220G    6.1G    196G     3%    371k   29M    1%   /usr
/dev/ad1s1d    222G    737M    203G     0%     28k   30M    0%   /var
total          443G    7.3G    401G     2%    402k   60M    1% 

-- 
Jerry
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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