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freeing up disk space in freeBSD

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balbeer

Technical User
Mar 1, 2001
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AU
Hi Guys,

can anybody tell me how to free up disk space in freeBSD server. We have user mail accounts and they are using lot of space and I want to know how to free up some disk space so that my mail server does'nt go crashing.

Please let me know asap.

Thanks in advance

Balbeer
 
"tunefs" has a pretty good man page and has helped me in the past

also try:

du -k | sort -rn | more

this will give you a list of files from largest to smallest, so you can see who the hogs are and rm their crap.

 
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