/rescue is huge!!

[Daniel Ajoy]

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2004-07/0442.html

This is what's happening to me:

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In the last episode (Jul 06), Richard Bradley said:
> 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!

If at some point you had copied /rescue with cp (instead of a tar pipe
or something else that preserves hardlinks), you would have gotten a
separate file for each link. 

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my ls looks like this:


ls -li /rescue

total 427594
 26 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 [
 64 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 atacontrol
 65 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 atm
 66 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 atmconfig
 67 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 badsect
 68 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 bsdlabel
 69 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 bunzip2
 70 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 bzcat
 71 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 bzip2
 72 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 camcontrol
 73 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3324376 Jan 12  2007 cat
...


how do I reduce the size of the rescue directory? 

Or, as a last resort, can I safely move it under /usr (which is in a different partition)?


Daniel