On Wed 08 Aug 2007 21:31:15 NZST +1200, Reg wrote: > > find . -print0 | du --si --files - | less
This lists directories and their disk use including all their subdirectories. In your case, the listed directories do not contain the big file(s) you're looking for. It's probably time to forget all about graohics and use a text command interface. Step 1: log out from all graphics logins. Step 2: presss ctrl-alt-f1 and log in as root. run ps aux to see if any more user processes are running. If not, you can unmount /home, however you will have to use the text-screen-based yast to recreate it (unless you know the commands). You can *not* have a graphical login for any user and mess with removing /home at the same time. The command to check for hidden things is ls -la. Look for hidden directories containing big files. Actually, there is a trivial way to find the path of the directory containing the big stuff: disregard the previous advice of using human-readable numbers, then sort by number. The command pipe is: du -k /home | sort -nr | more The numbers in column 1 are in kilobytes. Each line contains one directory; remember that the given size includes everything in that directory (so summing up column one unfortunately does not give you your disk capacity ;) ). From the first few lines the culprit can be quickly determined. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
