/ is 99% full

[Alex Dyas]

There are various things you can do :

Show in ascending order of size all the directories in / :
# du -x / | sort -n

Show all files in / over a meg in size:
# find / -xdev -size +1024k

Show all the files in / that have been modified within the last 10 minutes:
# find / -xdev -mmin -10

This last one is useful when looking for log files which tend to be the space 
hoggers and change frequently.

Also, check /var if it's in your / filesystem.  This tends to be where the space 
is gobbled up.

For more information :
man du
man find
man df

Alex..

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Vivek Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am having problems with few filesystems (partions). Following
> partiotions are 85 to 99 % full. I cannot expand the partition or add
> space to it:
> 
> /  99% full
> /boot 85% full
> /usr 90 % full
> 
> I don't know where to look and what to delete. Can I reduce other
> partitions and increase the size of above partiotion.
> Any help..
> 
> Thanks
> 
> vivek
> 
> 
> 
>