if you type du / | sort -n it will tell you the size of all the files and folders underneath / (Everything!), and pipe it to the sort program, which will sort by size when you give it the -n flag
you will need to wait a while for the operation to complete, and it won't look into protected directories unless you run as root. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:42 AM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/4/18 8:37 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > > Well, doing a df I see that / is the 9.1G partition and the other one is > > /home. > > > > Prior to cleaning, the partition was 9.05G full, after doing the cleanup > it > > is now down to 8.7G. > > so I have got to see what all is in it. Or I will have to make it > bigger. I > > have a boat load of empty > > space on the HD so I can shrink home a bit and give it some more space, > but > > if it is just going > > to eat that up with some blackhole files I need to find out what they are > > and see what can be > > trimmed. > > / is /dev/sda1 > > /home is /dev/sda5 > > > > Here is what df returns > > kp4djt@kp4djt64:~$ df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% > > Mounted on > > udev 10193624 0 10193624 0% /dev > > tmpfs 2044984 1468 2043516 1% /run > > /dev/sda1 9649432 8647828 491716 95% / > >...snip... > > Where is '/tmp' and '/var'? On '/' which is '/dev/sda1'? If this is the > case, your root partition is way too small. You might just have a boat > load of temporary and log files. Also, package managers take up a bunch > of space so you should check there as well. > > Consider also that when a distro claims "Minimum of X GB of Disk Space > to install" that is wishful thinking in the real world. You really need > to set aside at least 2X GB for any additional packages, logs, and temp > files. > > -Ed > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
