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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