a monster stole my /

[Jack Raats]

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From: "Hartleigh Burton" <hartleigh.burton at destra.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:40 AM
Subject: a monster stole my /


> Hiya!
>
> I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have found
> a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but I
> can't find what is taking up all the additional space. At best without
> destroying what I still do not understand I can manage to get / to
> about 101% capacity.
>
> To answer a couple of potential questions straight up, there is
> nothing in /root and /tmp is on a separate partition.
>
> intranet# df -h
> Filesystem               Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a              989M    986M    -76M   108%    /
> devfs                    1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/da0s1e              989M    216K    910M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f               58G    4.8G     48G     9%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1d              4.8G    2.2G    2.3G    49%    /var
> /dev/da1p1               3.3T    682G    2.4T    22%    /db
> devfs                    1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/named/dev
>

I once had the same problem.
A .core file in the / caused the problem.
After deleting the .core file everything was back to normal

Jack
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