Filled up the filesystem. How?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 6/8/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
> Figure out what you consider a "bloated" file, then
> 
>         find / -size +nnn[c|k] -print
> 
> For example, if you feel 200MB is bloated:
> 
>         find / -size +200000k -print
> 
> will display all files 200MB (200,000kB) or larger.
> 
> > I thought of waiting for FC4 and just rm'ing the whole drive (I
> > managed to back up /home/whats_important_to_me onto a 256 XD card with
> > a usb card reader), but we need the machine daily.
> >
> > Please, any other ideas about what to check, and what I can erase are
> > seriously needed right about now. If someone I trust (the names
> > Dalloz, Lynch and a few others come to mind) want to ssh in, I'll see
> > if I can set up the daemon. Thanks all, I always appreciate your help.
> > And your willingness to teach patiently.
> 
> Have you checked to see if your machine is swapping?  Use "free" and
> see how much free memory you have.  "vmstat 5" will also show you if
> you're swapping.
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> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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> -     Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me?     -
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> 

I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm
thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this
computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last
2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions:

1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up
that quickly?
2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But
how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by
date? I think the solution lies in that route.

The output of free is:
[root at localhost dotancohen]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        483304     473692       9612          0      19204     212356
-/+ buffers/cache:     242132     241172
Swap:       983032        236     982796


And vmstat 5 is:
[root at localhost dotancohen]# vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 3  0    236   9532  19288 212420    0    0     8    28  189    15 28 47 25  0
 2  0    236   9388  19296 212424    0    0     0    18 1910  2644 53 47  0  0
 2  0    236   9412  19304 212432    0    0     0    16 1924  2769 50 50  0  0
 2  0    236   9404  19312 212436    0    0     0     9 1916  2799 49 51  0  0
 2  0    236   9404  19320 212444    0    0     0     8 1922  2769 49 51  0  0
 2  0    236   9404  19328 212448    0    0     0     8 1905  2800 49 51  0  0


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