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[Mark Knecht]

On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > I've spend a few hours copying and deleting pictures off of my
> > > hard drive to CD's.  I still have no more space than when I
> > > started.  Last time this happened I found everything in a trash
> > > file but the only trash file I can find is empty.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> > >
> >
> > Use df to see what partition is full. You can use du -h in different
> > directories to get to where it's being used.
> >
> > If you can find the app filelight for your version, or you want to
> > build it from source, you can get a nice piture of where things are
> > being used.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Mark
> >
> Thanks - problem is it's one large directory on one large drive
> (160G drive, one directory /photos).  With two daughters using
> high resolution digital cameras it fills up fast.
>
> This drive is just a linux file server, nothing fancy loaded on
> it - no graphical window program.  Can I use firelight on my
> desktop to view the server?
>
> Brad
>

Sure, filelight could view that although if it's as simple as you say
then du -h in the directory that has the photos should prove or
disprove that this is where the disk space is being consumed.

Have you checked your temp directories? Also look at /var/log, etc.,
for stuff over there. If you've been running the server for a while
then the log files could be taking up more space than you think.
Recently I had a driver update cause one machine here at home to start
spewing millions of lines into a log file and got into a bit of a
problem for awhile.

Good luck finding the culprit.

- Mark