On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:56:26PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote:
> I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't
> figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up
> again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different
> answers from different tools as well :
> 
> df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk.
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             38464340  36316120    194316 100% /home
> 
> But when I try to find where it has gone with du,
> 
> du -k /home yields :
> 
>  5708312      .
> 
>  total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30?

Try

# du -k /home | sort -nr

Kurt
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