Help! My disk is full!

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Tue May 11 10:13:59 UTC 2004



Huan Deng wrote:

> Hello, Guys,
>  
> It is so strange that my hard disk is full in a very short time. Almost 30GB+ space is consumed in a few hour. 
>  
> I checked the disk using command df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2              7052496   2858552   3835696  43% /
> /dev/sda1               101089     15076     80794  16% /boot
> /dev/sda6             60989924  56854996   1036796  99% /home
> none                   2065448         0   2065448   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda5               396623     70972    305170  19% /var
> 
> The /home is occupied nealy 100%. (I deleted some files just now.) 
>  
> Then I checked the directory /home/cadmin using du --max-depth=1 .
> 16 ./.kde
> 4 ./.gconfd
> 236 ./.gconf
> 712 ./license
> 28 ./.gnome
> 56 ./.gnome2
> 4 ./.gnome2_private
> 20 ./.nautilus
> 12 ./.gnome-desktop
> 28 ./.metacity
> 35445700 .
> 
> I was so curious and deleted the directory /home/cadmin. But the space is still almost full. 
>  
> The system is Redhat 8.0, Kernel is 2.4.18-3bigmem.
>  
> Anybody can help me?
>  
> Thanks

cd /
du | sort -nr | more

Regards,
Ed.







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