/ (root) partition full

[Mogens Kjaer]

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. 

Try:

cd /var
du -ks *|sort -n

for a start.

Check the logfiles in /var/log for any interesting entries.

This will give you the size of each folder in /var, sorted
according to size.

If this doesn't give you anything, try /lib,
/opt, /tmp, /usr, /etc etc.

Mogens

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