On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Bevan <[email protected]> wrote: >> but cant find any other source that would fill up the root drive. note my >> home parition is a separate partition and i have three ntfs partitions ( >> which i am attempting to condense and move over to ext4 partition > > Well you need to find which file(s) are growing. > > cd / > sudo du --max-depth=1 -x > > Run it once, wait a while and run it again. Compare. The directory > which is filling up will be obvious. cd to it and run that command > again. rinse and repeat. > > Then go that directory
oops that last line shouldn't be there. By the way the -x excludes other file systems, so your /home and /proc and /sys should not be scanned. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
