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Re: rsync and harddisk memory dissapearence



on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:25:54PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> For a couple of days already I have been observing the following strange
> thing:
> I run
> rsync -v -etcetera kdesite:: /mnt/drC/kde_mirror
> Setting: drC is where /dev/hda1 is mounted. My linux runs from /dev/hdb
> Now, after just a couple of hours, my memory shows to be down by about
> 400 mb, which is impossible in a 36k dialup connection!!! Actually, it
  ^^^^^^
You are *not* talking about memory.  You're talking about disk storage.

> has never happened before.
> Any way, my kde mirror gets filled in hda1, but not by 400 mb! After a
> few these such, I am now down to about 1 mb free space!
> What can I do? Any ideas for things to check?

From /:

    $ du -sx * | sort -nr

...then trace down through your large(r) partitions.

Also:

    $ find / -mtime -1 -size +1000 -depth -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

...which will list large(r) recently created files.


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