Jeff (I assume),
We've got some issues here to clear up.
1) You originally stated that you were running out of disk space and specifically mentioned /var
2) You have now mentioned that your / directory is 95% full
3) You tried to associate your 95% / directory with your /etc directory
What we need is a "bdf -l" output so we can see what your filesystems look like. Hopefully we've already addressed some of the issues in /var. The rest of your filesystems should be separate from /, so /etc being full should not be too much of an issue - we'll need to look at / by itself.
When / fills, because most everything else is a separate file system, the most likely causes are:
1) a mis-directed backup to, for example, /dev/rmt/Om (that's a capital letter oh). Check /dev for regular files with find:
find /dev -type f -exec rm {} \;
2) core files - again you can use find:
find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
3) something that got written to an unmounted filesystem - for example if /var was unmounted and a large file was placed in /var, it would be written into the mountpoint under /, rather than into the /var filesystem itself. The only way to check for this is to unmount each filesystem and look under the mount point for files. The easiest way to do this is to reboot in single user mode and do an "ll" on each mount point before they are mounted.
I hope this helps clarify.
Pete
Pete
