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Re: 100% used / file system. Help!



On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:48:46 +0800, lina wrote:

> Sorry I have a quasi-problem with her, so hope won't mind I following my
> questions here,

That's why I hate partitioning :-)

Yep, I know there is LVM but I'm a bit reluctant in adding a second 
logical layer of complexity when it comes to hard disk management...
 
> My / partition is also on the edge of saturation.
> 
> But how do I know which files are in / partition?

"fdisk -l" will tell.

I have stored a one-liner to sort big files/folders:

(as root, and be patient, this can take some time...)

cd /
du -h | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r | less

> the /tmp /var are on other partitions. This is for sure.
> 
> / != /root
> correct?

(...)

Correct.

"/root" is the "home" of the root user :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón 
(in her "idle" time)


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