no space left?

[HaJo Schatz]

On Tue, October 26, 2004 9:36, Shu Hung (Koala) said:
>>Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Shu Hung (Koala) um 3:47:
>>
>>
>>Especially check /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log, whether there is huge
>>content filling the partition.
> I tried some command and got the results like this
>
>     [root at fileserver var]# du -sh /tmp
>     12K /tmp
>     [root at fileserver var]# du -sh /var
>     195M /var

Had this issue once and found it too tedious to try and run through my
whole fs with du. Since then, I keep a graphical util handy. Try eg
filelight (http://methylblue.com/filelight/). That should instantaneously
show you where your space went.

HaJo

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