On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:59 -0500, Gary Wallce wrote:
> I have been investigating further and  produced the following output
> per your advice Jonathan.
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# du -hs *
> 
> 8.0K anaconda-ks.cfg
> 
> 8.0K Desktop
> 
> 80K install.log
> 
> 12K install.log.syslog
> 
> 12K Scripts.odt
> 
> 84K workspace
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# du -hs
> 
> 19G .
> 
> As you can see, it is not showing where the 19G in this folder is
> coming from.  BTW this is the root folder.
> 
> Also, Frank.... I followed you instruction to produce the Allsizes
> file.  I did not see anything unual in this file.  In fact, if I copy
> past into OpenOffice Calc and add up all the lines, I should have
> plenty of space....but I do  not.
> 
>  
Good investigative footwork!  The only thing you're missing in the analysis
is that `du -hs *` isn't looking at all the files in the directory.

du -gr ~root |sort -gr |less

will be a bit more informative.  (You'll probably see your problem files
in the first page.)

With the currently available information, it looks like you have a
"hidden" directory (or file) which contains a pretty significant bit
of data.  hidden files start with a "." and the shell '*' won't match
them.  Using du -hs .* would probably show you the problem files as
well.

-Toshio

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