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In <4jnk0i$lla@mirv.unsw.edu.au> mhart@solar.profs.unsw.edu.AU (Michael HART) writes:

>And the ls -al command reveals
>solar:mhart 67[/]$ ls -al
>total 7931
>drwxr-xr-x 18 root         1024 Feb 19 12:44 .
>drwxr-xr-x 18 root         1024 Feb 19 12:44 ..
.....
>drwxrwsrwt 13 root        14336 Apr  1 13:43 tmp
>drwxr-xr-x 30 root         1024 Mar 30  1993 usr
>drwxr-xr-x 12 root          512 Jul  6  1994 var

Ok,, I've deleted all the irrelevant parts.. The size of the /tmp 
directory suggests this is a place to check. /tmp has a habit of filling 
up with undeleted temporary files, and very quickly can clog up a 
filesystem if it's not removed from the root directory.

Also, if you have /var existing as a real sub-directory here, the syslog 
files in /var/log, and some of the files in /var/adm, can grow huge and 
consume lots of space. Do you have /var mounted as a seperate partition? 
Sun's default install process does not seperate /var out onto a seperate 
partition, so it's easy to be caught by this.

Assuming /var is seperate, you can get around the /tmp problem (if that's
the cause) by creating /var/tmp, and using a symlink from /tmp to
/var/tmp. I do this on all of my machines at home becasue I've had /tmp
fill up my root filesystem(s) once too often! 8-)

Hopefully this will give you a few pointers...

Regards,

Craig.

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