Re: /tmp is looking full but du doesn't show why

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (02/01/07 09:20), Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:05:15PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've noticed my /tmp directory filling up and thought I ought to check
> > out why using du
> > 
> > clive@Darius:~$ df -h /tmp
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/alpha-tmp
> >                       432M  332M   77M  82% /tmp
> > 
> > clive@Darius:~$ sudo du -h --max-depth=1 /tmp
> > 		      12K     /tmp/lost+found
> > 		      1.0K    /tmp/.X11-unix
> > 		      1.0K    /tmp/.ICE-unix
> > 		      1.0K    /tmp/orbit-clive
> > 		      1.0K    /tmp/ssh-GKkECA3953
> > 		      3.0K    /tmp/gconfd-clive
> > 		      5.0K    /tmp/plugtmp
> > 		      112K    /tmp/svpp3.tmp
> > 		      324M    /tmp
> > 
> Du shows how much space is used by directories.  Your listing suggests
> that there's a lot in /tmp itself not in lower directories.  Try ls -al

Thanks Doug and David

Back to the man pages for me :)

Regards

Clive

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