Out of disk space..how to free

[Jez Hancock]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:43:09PM -0400, Tom and Becky Foltz wrote:
>  We are using Webmin for our email server and we have been receiving the following message:At boot up:     File system full After boot up:    low on space (have 0,SMTP - DAEMON needs 01 i /var/spool/mqueue I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but I've worked with Linux in the past.  How do I free up some space?  I've already deleted about 5000 email messages and rebooted the server (FreeBSD 4.0) about 4 times with the same messages.  Got any ideas and directions?Thanks,Tom
Try:

df -h

to get an idea of how full your disks are, example output:

Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a   197M    64M   118M    35%    /
/dev/ad0s2e    14G   2.4G    11G    18%    /home
/dev/ad0s2f    14G   4.8G   8.5G    36%    /opt
/dev/ad0s1e   4.3G   1.9G   2.1G    48%    /usr
/dev/ad0s2g   2.9G  1010M   1.7G    37%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc

Then also try:

du /var | sort -n

which will show you how much disk usage /var is taking up and sort it so that the larger
files are to the end of the listing.  If you notice anything untoward you might want to
backup or delete.

Also check that your logfiles are being compressed under /var/log and that they're rotated
and preferably backed up out of the /var hierarchy.

Just some ideas,
Jez