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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