On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: > 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?
it is using per default 32mb for its journal. The missing mb (32+15>40) comes from two facts: du lies and tail packing. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
