Re: Root partition filling up

2006-04-09 Thread Karl Magdsick 
Sam,

Try running the following:

du -x -a -k /

This will recursively calculate the size in kilobytes of each file and directory
on your root partition.

If you want the output sorted, try

du -x -a -k / | sort -g -r | less



-Karl

On 4/9/06, Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 My question is - what's filling up / ?

 Thanks,
 Sam
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Re: Root partition filling up

2006-04-09 Thread Sam Varghese 
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On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:04:38AM + Karl Magdsick said:
 Sam,
 
 Try running the following:
 
 du -x -a -k /
 
 This will recursively calculate the size in kilobytes of each file and 
 directory
 on your root partition.
 
 If you want the output sorted, try
 
 du -x -a -k / | sort -g -r | less

Thanks, Karl. This time it was a case of luser error.

When I ran the commands you specified, I noticed a directory called dvds 
- - and then realised that I must have created it on Saturday by mistake 
when I was processing some avi files for a DVD. Once I removed that, I 
am back to 17 per cent usage.

Sam
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