I followed this option and promptly discovered that I was writing backup files to /media/disk/ which was an alias for the main hard drive which not unsurprisingly eventually filled up. Of course I don't know what program is the culprit so it will eventually fill up again.

On 08/10/2010 09:44 PM, John wrote:

I usually do a find search based on file size

find / -size +1000000 -print

The above examples is any files over a GB. I usually do it as root so it can hit every directory. I usually start high and work my way down to see if I can find any files that are taking up too much space and may not be needed.

--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@yahoo.com>
Subject: ext3 disk full
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 9:48 PM

My 250GB ext3 disk on Ubuntu 10.4 is full. I can't find more than 20GB worth of data on the disk. Disk Usage Analyzer and GUI file tools show the disk with only 10GB free. Disk utility and e2fsck show the drive as fine so I can't get it to repair itself. Even so I have about 220GB of mystery data on the disk.

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