[gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to look at and doing the same On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root /

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hs /* This will give you an easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks all! so many great answers so quickly. Greatly appreciated. cheers, Mark On Apr 11, 2005 4:06 PM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread William Kenworthy
or du /|sort -rn|less for a global view, largest files/directories at the top! BillK On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:54 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 4:54 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: or du /|sort -rn|less for a global view, largest files/directories at the top! Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view. Yeah, I like filelight but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
From the prompt enter : du -x -h | more and then page through the displayed screens (using the space bar) where you wil be shown the size of each directory which may help you find the culprit. Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100%