Re: disk usage

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:07:01PM -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote:
> I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that
> I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I
> recently partitioned the HD in two so that I could have FreeBSD running on
> my machine as well (which would of course have doubled the value reported
> by df).
> 
> There are roughly 15GB on the Debian side of things, which - okay - ain't
> the biggest space in the world anymore, but should be -plenty.- I didn't
> think I had enough candy installed to occupy over half that space ... so
> I'm wondering where crud might have a tendency to build up on a Debian
> install, how to find it and what the easiest way might be to get rid of it
> is.

info du

In particular, check out /var.  That's where most "crud" will accumulate.
 
> The real impetus for this is that I've heard, anyway, that unauthorized
> users can figure out ways to use one's unused HD space to store their
> warez, or what have you, and I sure wouldn't like it if that was what was
> going on here ...

That wouldn't normally be a problem unless your box has been
compromised, or have silly things like world writeable ftp access or
samba shares.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>