Filled up the filesystem. How?

Daniel Buggie buggie at best.com
Wed Jun 8 17:36:15 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:57 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
> How does one go about searching for bloat? All the obvious (logs, tmp,
> yum clean all) leave no hints. Last thing that I want to do is to tell
> Ety to log onto the windows machine because linux is broken!!!

Yet another option is to run: du -kx / | sort -rn

This will go through the root file system and print out the size of each
directory (in kilobytes) and then sort them so the largest directories
are at the top of the list.

Daniel




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