> > *- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about "HD full, 50% yesterday" > > I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of > > capacity. The last time I was on the computer > > I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any > > other information. Any suggestions on what > > I can check out to figure out how my harddrive reached this capacity? > > > > > I would start with a 'du -hxs *' in / and then work your way down to the > large directories. Since you haven't installed anything it most likely > is in /var where logs and spool files etc. are kept. If you have > multiple partitions for you Linux setup you can also use 'df -h' to see > the stats of each partition. >
Or you could do ' find / -size +1000k ' Which will look for all files larger than 1M starting from / directory and going down the tree. If you have any huge files, it'll find it. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org <--All the pages bundled together. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
