gorged harddrive

[charles f. zeitler]

--- Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> charles f. zeitler wrote:
> > i've been pruning my "downloads" disk,
> > rather drastically, and not making a dent.
> > 
> > today some more, less drastic but still
> > hefty, same result.
> > 
> > revisited du- checked it twice - three
> > times- yup, it reports one directory at
> > 800+ gb- on a 400gb disk!
> > 
> > fsck (forced) failed to report any problems,
> > there don't seem to be any symlinks,
> > and the sub-direcory sizes are sane...
> > 
> > any ideas welcome, and appreciated.
> 
> Instead of telling people what you are seeing it would be better to show the 
> actual commands and output.
> 
good point.


[fedora_8 at Nyarlethotep ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8             13250836  11459264   1107608  92% /
/dev/sda9              1898468    825572    974904  46% /tmp
/dev/sda11           270882768 259964688   5414052  98% /home
/dev/sda10             1898468   1156484    643992  65% /var
/dev/sdc1            480719056 370452080 105383136  78% /home/fedora_8/music_vids
/dev/sda2               101105     17986     77898  19% /boot
tmpfs                  1037552       248   1037304   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1            384578164 330445976  34596748  91% /home/fedora_8/torrents_isos

/dev/sdb1 is the drive under discussion.


[fedora_8 at Nyarlethotep ~]$ du -sb t*s/*
34256010522     torrents_isos/backup
883393808812    torrents_isos/data
58352749159     torrents_isos/finished
75197043648     torrents_isos/finnished
18222558607     torrents_isos/isos
4781438 torrents_isos/logs
16384   torrents_isos/lost+found
4096    torrents_isos/lost_meta
193903286       torrents_isos/meta
1402434610      torrents_isos/new
75585799469     torrents_isos/porn
4096    torrents_isos/rar
1318803 torrents_isos/shas
4096    torrents_isos/tmp
97996487        torrents_isos/total_meta.tar.bz2
4096    torrents_isos/zip

somethings wrong with t*s/data  ....

charles zeitler

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