On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:05:08AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I
> >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I
> >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is
> >there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar
> >to "ls" that lists files, but sorts them in order of filesize? This
> >way I could attempt to track what is causing this excessive usage of
> >space. I believe the actual working install of OpenOffice.org is not,
> >in and of itself, the culprit (I'm guessing that uninstalling it via
> >synaptic would only free up a bit over 200 MB -- I'm basing this guess
> >upon viewing the listed created debs in synaptic, and marking them for
> >removal to see what synaptic would report). As always, all
> >suggestion/comments appreciated.
> >--Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >To sort files in the order of the size use
> >du --max-depth=1 -m / | sort -g
> >
> >replace / with the corresponding directory. More information can be
> >found in 'man du', 'man sort'
> >
> >raju
>
>
> Thanks for this suggestion. This space concern happened shortly after I
> installed OpenOffice.org 2.0, but that may be a co-incidence. I also
> turned on a usb storage device that a friend of mine gave to me (which
> had an old Windows file system on it.) I think something, for some
> reason, is repeating itself (a sort of loop) within my computer
> somewhere. Last night, nautilus reported that I had zero bytes (I had
> had eighteen, previously.) So, I eliminated various files and programs,
> freeing up 3.1 GB (I previously had not been able to read email due to
> space limitations.) This morning, once again, it reported zero bytes
> free. Rebooting did not change this. So again, I deleted some more stuff.
>
When you talk about usb device, I remember a friends machine which had
a similar problem, and after much confusion we tracked the problem down
to a backup script which wrote to a mount point which should always (but
did not) have had a partition mounted. Thus there were _many_ things
on / which didn't belong there.
Also, check /var/log/ for excessive log files...
> Is there a way to check what processes are going on, so that perhaps I
> could kill whichever one is screwing up my computer? Also, an hour ago
> I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still
> pondering this.
>
>
Hth
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