One more thing to keep in mind, and this may have been mentioned
before... depending on how you are invoking du you may be missing
files or directories due to shell globbing. For example, if you are
running du (or any command for that matter) from bash as it comes on
most systems like this
du -s *
to obtain summary disk usage for everything, I would expect that it
won't scan anything with a name beginning with a period '.' This is
due to the fact that bash expands * to pretty much everything, except
names starting with a period.
To test this, try
ls *
in a location where you have some files or directories with names
beginning with a period, and you may find that they won't be listed.
This behaviour of bash is configurable by setting the shell option
"dotglob" by executing this:
shopt -s dotglob
which will make bash expand * to everything, also including names
starting with a period. You can check the shell options with just
shopt
I am not sure whether this is what's missing in your case, Bevan, but
it is one possible way of missing files and directories.
If you are using some other shell, this may all be different, but the
key point is that shells may perform some kind of name expansion, and
this is often different from what you would expect if you are thinking
along the lines of regular expressions.
Kind regards,
Helmut.
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On Tue, 15 May 2012, Nick Rout wrote:
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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