/ (root) partition full

[Mike McCarty]

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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