Re: HD full, 50% yesterday
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> *- On 29 Aug, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote about "HD full, 50% yesterday"
> > I am being told that my hardrive is full. Yesterday it was only 50% of capacity. The last time I was on the computer
> > I had "screen" with "emacs" open, and TCD. I have not downloading any other information. Any suggestions on what
> > I can check out to figure out how my harddrive reached this capacity?
> >
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> I would start with a 'du -hxs *' in / and then work your way down to the
> large directories. Since you haven't installed anything it most likely
> is in /var where logs and spool files etc. are kept. If you have
> multiple partitions for you Linux setup you can also use 'df -h' to see
> the stats of each partition.
>
Or you could do ' find / -size +1000k '
Which will look for all files larger than 1M starting from / directory and
going down the tree. If you have any huge files, it'll find it.
Andrew
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