Michael Havens wrote:
>
> There is so much data on my disk that when I sstarted Linux this morning 'x'
wouldn't start. The precursor to this was last night I did 'rm /mnt/hda5/*'
(my music drive). I thought that maybe it was that the trash bin was needed to
be emptied, but I found that to be not full except for one small file (I had
emptied it last night). So I thought maybe it was somewhere else on the drive
and did 'find / S*' (most of my music starts with an S as in Styx and Stevie
Nicks and Swing) but after that long search that proved to be fruitless. So
where could all that extra data be that are filling my disk be?
> ......
> Wait a second. I 'su root' so that means that it is in roots trash bin. I
think that is right. Let me know if I am not.
> :-)Mike(-:
>
When you use 'rm' to remove a file, it doesn't get transfered to a 'trash
bin', it is deleted completely and the disk space is now available to be used
for something else.
You may have a lot of excess stuff in your /tmp directory.
If you need to, you can start at the top of the filesystem 'tree' /
# cd /
Then use the du command to see how much space is used for each directory.
# du --max-depth=1
If you see something bigger than you think it should be, cd down a level and
do it again, until you find the large file(s).
# cd tmp
# du --max-depth=1
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KevinO
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