> On Saturday 18 May 2002 11:59 pm, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > messages from my mailspool because my device was full. Confused, I ran
> > df -h and found that /home was full to capacity, at 100%. I deleted
> > some software and removed a couple of old user directories, and had the
> > /home directory at 96%. Then I went to watch a movie, and when I came
> > back, /home was back up at 100%.
Hopefully I haven't misread your posting: did you look for one
or more _big_ files in /home ? One method of looking for these:
du -ks * | sort -nr
displays a list of the directories / files from the current
path, with the total disk used in kilobytes. For example,
starting from /usr, my host shows:
1197724 local
1149048 src
1028184 share
776124 lib
276828 X11R6
168252 bin
52592 MuPAD
39840 sbin
29288 include
168 man
4 etc
0 tmp
It's clear from this list that 'local' and 'src' have
the most disk usage. Move to the next level down:
cd local
and re-run "du -ks * | sort -nr" :
756388 src
208676 bin
34344 gcc3
29576 crystal
6636 httpd
1076 doc
960 share
72 man
28 num
16 lib
4 sbin
4 info
4 include
4 etc
and so on, until the listing is of _files_, and
there you should have an inkling of what is
soaking up all your disk space. In your case,
cd /home
du -ks * |sort -nr
Be cautious about blowing away or truncating any
files or directories if you're not sure of their
function.
Happy hunting!
--
Charles Polisher
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the titanic.
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