On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Bevan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 May 2012 10:42, C. Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nick Rout wrote, On 05/17/2012 08:08 AM: >> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Bevan<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> haven't run shopt -s dotglob yet but this is the output so far >>>> >>>> also note this only happens after i leave the computer on when i go to >>>> bed >>>> and in the morning it starts to fill up after a reboot its good for the >>>> day. >> >> Before After Dir >>>> >>>> 1224 1224 run >>>> 3384 3384 lib32 >>>> 8800 8800 sbin >>>> 8916 8916 bin >>>> 14488 14488 root >>>> 23532 23532 etc >>>> 48924 48924 boot >>>> 146796 146796 tmp >>>> 391072 391072 opt >>>> 410396 410396 lib >>>> 4328684 4332820 var +4136 kb >>>> 6632904 6632904 media >>>> 7250012 7250012 usr >>>> 22739196 22740540 home +1344 kb >>>> >>> Please stop top posting. >>> What conclusions do you draw? Is there any major increase? >>> Use the commands I gave you and find out which directory is growing, >>> then find the file. I can't understand why you will not run the >>> commands I suggested. >> >> I agree with Nick - you've used 4 Mbytes in /var and 1.3 Mbytes in /home >> over the time between the two commands. Neither of those looks particularly >> unusual. >> >> Bevan - which filesystem is filling up? >> >> -- >> Craig Falconer >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > ok i want to test the root (linux system) drive but the test that i have > done so far dont show what is taking the space. My home is on a separate > partition. > > It is only in the morning after the computer has been on over night and when > i come back to it in the morning it is then it starts filling up the system > / partition until it is full or i restart it, then it is good until the next > morning. it not /var and wont be /home. > > Regards
In the morning, type cd / du --max-depth=1 -x |sort -n You have not told us how fast it fills up, nor what sort of space we are talking about, but after a suitable time run the command again and see what is filling up. Say it is /var, cd to /var and run the command again. It is morning, do it now! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
