Re: / is suddenly 100% used

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

Try as root:

   find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s | sort -nr | less

And you will see all files sorted by size (in blocks, bigest first) on
your root partition...

Martin


On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, jdls wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost
> nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move
> and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage
> somehow goes down...it doesn't..du doesn't show anything extraordinary...is
> there something I can try to find out what's happening and or to pinpoint
> the culprit?
> 
> Hoping for some sort of advice.
> 
> Thank you.