find / -size 500000k you can specify where to find however, find /home ... would find all files larger than 500mb in /home.
-- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic -----Original Message----- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:21 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full On Monday 28 January 2008 17:59:44 Bill Anderson wrote: > Sunny wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2008 10:15 AM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is > >> reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is > >> the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even > >> root is not allowed to move or delete this file. > >> > >> My system looks like this: > >> > >> Device Size Mount point Free > >> sda2 965.1MB / 0B > >> sda3 60.8MB /boot 46.8MB > >> sda5 9.8GB /usr 4.9GB > >> sda6 2.0GB /var 1.2GB > >> sda7 2.0GB /opt 906.3MB > >> sda8 1011.4MB /tmp 926.4MB > >> sda9 257.3GB /home 154.1GB > > > > /proc is virtual file system, which resides in memory, not on disk. > > Even some files are not actually in memory, but when you read them, > > you actually receive information from the kernel. > > In your case, read here for /proc/kcore: > > <http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml> > > > > Run the command "df" to see the how your partitions are filled in. > > Run "top" to see which process consumes more resources. > > > > Note, that if you run firefox for several days w/o stopping it, it may > > eat a lot of resources. > > > > Cheers > > I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in > memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined > by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read > from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames > under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of > such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. > It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. > > Bill Anderson > WW7BA Hmmm. I can't say I understand much of that :(. I've been informed off-list that /proc/kcore is simply my running kernel, so that's probably not the file I'm looking for. Can anyone suggest a simple CLI incantation to find all files larger than, say, 500MB? -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, KDE 3.5.8 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
