Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

[Bill Kenworthy]

as root, "cd /" and "du|sort -rn|less"  May take a while as will list
and sort every file on the disk according to size, largest at the top.
Note that it will include directory totals which is ok as you can pick
up large numbers of small files that way such as occurs with the
logrotate and mail problems of the past (which will take forever to
list/sort!).

BillK


Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> Craig,
> 
> Thank you...that information helps me make sense of a few things, but now
> I'm really stumped cause all that being the case what the heck is eating
> up all the space on the "/"? I can't find any large files anywhere except
> there, and this whole thing started yesterday on this machine just after a
> run-away MySQL process took off. I had to reboot the machine to kill the
> process and /dev/hda1 ("/") has been at 99% since then. Since this has
> only happened once before AND on a Mandrake system I'm really at a loss as
> to what to do about it.
>