Re: lost disk space

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 20/07/11 02:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:
> On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormick<debianlist@videotron.ca>  wrote:
> > Spent  a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website)
> > and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!!
> > I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but
> > now I can't find out where it's gone ?
>
> You could try something like
>
> du -h | grep -E "^.{1,5}G"
>
> from e.g., your home directory. This will report disk usage of each
> FILE, recursively for directories (-h for human-readable sizes) and
> pick only those lines that are reported using the Gigabyte unit.
> Somewhere in the output of this command, you might find your problem.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Martin


  Well, it helped but had to do it in the root, and keep it from 
checking every mounted drive :)
Found two files in /var/log...kernel.log and syslog.1 that are more than
3.7 gigs each. I still haven't looked into them to see what was being 
logged all the time I was watching streaming video. Are there not 
methods in place for preventing this sort of thing? And what's the best 
way to deal with them..should I simply delete them ?

At any rate thanks to everyone for the help - I also had a quick look at
man find..and just as quickly got lost in its seemingly thousands of
possible commands :)



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Cheers
Frank