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Article #37SUMMARY:reclaiming space in /usr directory
From: Loo Guan Wee,Engineer,CSE
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:00
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Question: Hi, The /usr directory of my DECStation 5000/133 keeps expanding and its reaching the 100% usage mark. I tried to erase some 'big' files by "rm" them but the size doesn't seem to change at all. May I know how could I reclaim the space and which files should I delete if I have to manually remove them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. The advice I received is to reboot the system to terminate the processes that opened the deleted files in order to free the blocks - this works. To do so without having to reboot, the system processes that open files for accounting and logging purposes such as "accton", "eli" , "syslog" etc should be restarted or stopped after deleting the files. Thanks again to all those who responded! Regards, Guan Wee
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