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Re: file system on / grew over night?



Michael A. Miller(mmiller3@iupui.edu) is reported to have said:
> I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
> is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
> partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
> enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
> seems full: 
> 
> /dev/hda1              71G   65G  3.0G  96% /
> 
> But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
> in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
> I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
> shoot this?


find / -size +2G -print
or

du -chs /root
and /var, etc

aptitude autoclean | clean

W

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instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every
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