On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:17 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> 
> There is so much data on my disk that when I started Linux 
> this morning 'x' wouldn't start.  
> where could all that extra data be that are filling my disk be?

You can use the df and du commands to track this down.  For example:

-bash-2.05b$ df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              6048352   6048352         0 100% /
/dev/hda1               101086      8650     87217  10% /boot
/dev/hda3              9448100   8192648    775512  92% /home
/dev/hdb1            115380192  11906844  97612312  11% /apps1
/dev/hde1            118169876  32456600  79710592  29% /apps2
/dev/hdg1            118176996 101251552  10922404  91% /apps3
none                    516128         0    516128   0% /dev/shm

From this you can see that the / filesystem is 100% full.  Then you can use
du to track down which directory in that filesystem is the biggest:

-bash-2.05b$ du -sk * | sort -n
0       misc
4       initrd
4       opt
4       razor-agent.log
44      mnt
424     dev
4536    boot
4964    bin
7920    tmp
13340   sbin
31108   etc
85316   lib
248656  var
922661  proc
3630148 usr

Here you can see that the /usr directory is the biggest.  So you'd cd /usr
and repeat that du command:

-bash-2.05b$ du -sk * | sort -n
0       tmp
4       dict
4       etc
72      kerberos
468     doc
3912    games
9928    libexec
39916   sbin
60440   java
72276   include
123288  X11R6
196876  bin
277260  src
496144  local
1075940 share
1273616 lib

Uh oh, looks like /usr/lib is big.  Keep descending into the filesystem
until you find the culprit.

HTH.  HAND.

~Jeff
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