Re: How to find hidden space wasting files?

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Author: Jon M. Hanson
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Subject: Re: How to find hidden space wasting files?
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Notice the change in my /home directory from available 2.5G
> > to 1.4G and back to 2.5G after rebooting again.
>
> That's commonly the sign of files being deleted but still existing because
> I running process has them open.
>
> lsof can also help with this.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed


Also, try running du -k on /home to see which directories are taking up the
most amount of space.


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