2007/6/21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Try using: du -xa /boot | sort -rn as root to locate the space hogs, which may be hidden files. (du does "lie" sometimes though, because the assumptions it makes about file size aren't always true.)
tux ric # du -xa /boot | sort -rn 7283 /boot 2935 /boot/gentoo-2.6.20 2903 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7.old 993 /boot/System.map-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 345 /boot/grub 100 /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito 100 /boot/grub/stage2 56 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 44 /boot/config-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 36 /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 12 /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 12 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 8 /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 4 /boot/grub/stage1 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample 4 /boot/grub/grub.conf 4 /boot/grub/device.map 4 /boot/grub/default 0 /boot/vmlinuz 0 /boot/System.map 0 /boot/.keep 0 /boot/grub/menu.lst 0 /boot/config 0 /boot/boot Ok, this shows me every file on /boot, only ~15Mb, which is more that I had calculated before.
You might also fire up filelight and/or the file size view of konqueror (either would also need to be as root) if you prefer a graphical view. (They will suffer from the same limitations as du, but their assumptions my be different.)
Almost the same with a graphical view.
Oh, I'm not sure while filesystem you are using, but reiserfs reserves some space for the block usage bitmap and misc. metadata, and that takes up a number of MB.
You might be right, but still, we have found out that the files are ~15Mb, if the partition has a size of 40Mb, is it possible that reiserfs is using almost 25Mb for storing data? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
