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.
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