you need to find out where it is all stored. du is your friend. du=disk
usage.
get into a terminal and change to root user with su
run the following command:
du --max-depth=1 |sort -n
this will determine how much is in each subdir, one depth down and sort
it.
if the largest dir is roger, cd to that and run it again. Eventually you
will fine which dirs are hogging the space.
Good luck :-)
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 19:50, Roger Searle wrote:
> (obviously) linux newbie and proud to be so... please don't suggest i get a
> bigger hard drive.
>
> Somehow my /home partition is now 100% full (mdk 9.2). I can easily sort this
> type of problem in windows, it's very frustrating that I can't figure this out
> in linux. So right now I can't send emails from linux ("error writing temporary
> file"). KDiskFree shows no space left.
>
> I'm not sure what's going on here, because the partition is 8GB, and I'm storing
> email and other files on a different partition (so I can dual boot) and am not
> aware of doing anything that would be using the space. I have upgraded mozilla
> and installed a seti app, which hardly accounts for much! Sure, I've used the
> gui urpmi tool to install all the updates. But filling an entire 8.3GB???
>
> So I tried removing a few packages, which was a fix (I could send email!) for a
> couple of days. But I'm back at 100% again. Can anyone suggest what I can do?
> Does this seem to be a "normal" situation? Or is something going wrong? I
> can't keep on removing packages for too long...
>
> I went looking for the command to list free partition space and only came up
> with this (it's hdb7 that's full).
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb -l
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 2932 23551258+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdb2 2933 4865 15526822+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 2933 3696 6136798+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 3697 3759 506016 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb7 3760 4865 8883913+ 83 Linux
>
>
