> On Oct 24, 2017 5:07 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:23:55 -0700 > a...@clueserver.org dijo: > >>> I used Thunar to check Properties on everything in / and found >>> nothing out of the ordinary. I need some command line tools to find >>> the pig that is using all my space. Also I need to find out what is >>> causing the pig to be so hungry. Suggestions? >> >>du -h --max-depth=1 / >> >>You can then look in the directory using the most space with the same >>command until you find what you want. You might need to run it under >>sudo to avoid the "cannot access directory" error messages. > > I did this and the only thing that looked suspicious was 55016 > for /media. I have a hunch that /media is where the problem is, like > what if stuff was supposed to go to a device mounted there but instead > it went to a folder in /media? > > This computer has two drives, > > sdb 480GB partitioned as / 84G and the remainder as /home > sda 1GB, one partition, label Data, mounted at /media/jjj/Data > > However, there are also two external drives that are always mounted, > Movies (14TB, USB) and Synology (16TB, NAS). I suspect that Movies is > the problem. It is mounted at /media/jjj/Movies, but I think that there > must be some movies there that are not on the drive. Perhaps I moved > some movies to Movies when the drive was not actually mounted. The > Synology is just a backup mirror of Movies (rsync). > > Unfortunately, Thunar just displays all the movies in Movies without > telling me if they are really on the USB drive or whether they are > on /media/jjj/Movies. There are over 1400 folders (one for each movie), > so checking each one individually would be ridiculous. I need a more > efficient way to figure this out. Any suggestions? > > > Umount / disconnect the external drive and then check to see if anything > is still in the directory where the drive was mounted.
df -h will show you what drives are mounted and how much space they have left. (The -h flag is "human readable".) perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug