Filling up /

[Karl]

Dotan Cohen schreef:
> On 5/7/06, ben <ben at cvrse.com> wrote:
>>
>> try
>> 'sudo du -sh /*'
>> to give u a breakdown of usage from / dir then cd into the main 
>> offending dirs
>> and
>> 'sudo du -sh ./*'
>>
>> ben
>
> Fund it! Unbelievable. A few weeks ago I was moving files between hard
> disks that I was connecting/ disconnecting from the machine. I had a
> temp_files folder in root set up for the purpose- and I forgot to
> delete it when I finished the last batch! 5 GB of pictures in there...
> now the system is a little cleaner:
> # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             11535344   3842352   7107024  36% /
> tmpfs                   128388         0    128388   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                   128388     12588    115800  10%
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
> /dev/hda6              6965472   2107212   4504432  32% /home
>
> Thanks, all. Sorry for the noise- stupid mistake on my part.
>
> Dotan Cohen
> http://essentialinux.com
>
>
> 3
There are no stupid questions...
Now everybody learned that du is a good command to search for (big) files...
du stands for "Disk Usage"...

K,