/ (root) partition full
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 13 17:05:22 UTC 2006
Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
> Hi, Anyone
> Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box.
> (My wife is paranoid that way.) KDiskFree showed my root partition a
> bit over 50% full. Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago,
> it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit. The
> file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if
> that makes a difference. Has anyone run into this? Is there a tool I
> can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify
> the cause? I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that
> only recovered about 350 mB; I'm still missing some 5 gig.
> Cheers,
> Gordon Keehn
>
I have a little script in the path for root which I call dirsize.
# cat dirsize
du -sm $(find $1 -type d -maxdepth 1 -xdev) | sort -gr
You may find this useful.
Mike
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