Filled up the filesystem. How?

[peter kostov]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Oded Maimon <oded.maimon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 
> > >Help!
> > >
> > >Last week I wrote that I somehow filled 7 out of 10 megs in my linux
> > >partition. Today that last bit was filled- I am at 100% capacity.
> > >
> > >I cannot download email or create new files. What could be the cause
> > >of this? Where should I look for bloat? What can I delete?
> > >
> > >Dotan
> > >http://lyricslist.com/forum/index.php
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> > >
> > >
> > Hi,
> > du -k / | sort -nr
> > will give you a list by size of all your folders.
> > 
> > just one question? did you tried rebooting?
> > it could be that  a file you deleted is still geting writen and you
> > can't see it...
> > 
> 
> I'm a little scared to reboot. If the disk is that full, will I be able to boot?

I think you don`t have to reboot. lsof will list opened files and kill -
ing some processes may help. Use ps -u <username> and then kill.
Regards, Peter
> 

> Dotan
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