Re: How to find hidden space wasting files?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jon M. Hanson wrote:

> 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.

That will work unless the files are already deleted. See Matt's good email
for details.

Jeremy C. Reed
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