ext3 disk full

[Trent Shipley]

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 at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: ext3 disk full
>     To: plug-discuss at 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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