Cecil Watson wrote:
>
> Help! Some how something seems to be eating up space on my hard drive!
> I won't be able to get to the system till Monday. I have OpenSSH
> access, but cannot find anything out of place? Anyone got any ideas? I
> know I had plenty of room available on it?! Thanks in advance,
>
> Cecil
For the fine-grained investigation
ls -a -l -R -H (target directory) | grep ./ -A 1 | lpr
My guess is you will find
~/.netscape/cache/00
~/.netscape/cache/01
*
*
*
~/.netscape/cache/1F
with each about 2-4Mb in them, still technically under the
default 5000kb limit set for the cache size, but with 30 or more
subdirectories in the cache each approaching that limit.
The "cure" I use is a script
#-----------cachebash begins below with the line beginning with
#! being the first line in the file
#!/bin/sh
for i in `sed s/:/ / /etc/passwd | gawk /^[a-z]/ print $1`
do
if [ -d /home/$i/.netscape ] then
rm -R -f /home/$i/.netscape/cache
fi
done
rm -R -f /root/.netscape/cache
#---------End of script
the sed changes the colons in /etc/passwd lines to a single space
so gawk can see them as fields and the print $1 lists all users.
Then the if checks if the user has a netscape cache and deletes
it and all its subdirectories if so. The last line isn't in my
/root/cachebash script because I don't netscape as root, but is
included here for those who might do so inadvertantly. The whole
script is stored as /root/cachebash and is run weekdays at 16:01
by cron (running as root, obviously).
I have seen results up to the removal of 9000 or more files.
And soon, if my tests on Konqueror continue to produce the
results I have seen thus far, this script won't be necessary,
because I won't be using netscape. At one time I admired
Netscape and now when it goes off my system I won't shed a tear.
Civileme
