[nflug] uhoh

[Mark Musone]

It is taking so long because "*" in / will also match and count the files in
/home,/tmp,/usr, and /var.

Manually put in the directory names, omitting those directories that are on
other disks:

In the following case of my / directory:
-bash-2.05b# ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  initrd  lib  local  lost+found  mnt  mnt2  proc
root  sbin  tftpboot  tmp  usr  var


"du -sk bin boot etc initrd lib local mnt mnt2 root sbin"

It'd be a lot faster.

Same thing with "find", issue the -xdev option to stay in just the /
filesystem

"find / -xdev -size +100K"   ...etc..


-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
eric
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:21 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] uhoh

the commands are working so incredibly slow I decieded to delete some
"safe stuff" I have a webmin directory in /root that has been their all
along so I started to get rid of some files and the commands "find" "du"
are still moving like snails, I tried du -s * from the / dir ...it had
been running for a half hour so I zapped it with ctrl z and tried to
delete some more stuff out the webmin dir.  So, I have a new question:
could something on the system be creating a file or files constantly or
can the 251M that was alotted over spill on the / dir and I have to
delete down to 251M like memory is waiting to write to the hard drive?  
I slap my hands everytime I think I want to just restart the server
typical windows brainwashing.

Thanks,
Eric

Darin Perusich wrote:

>or it could be /root.
>
>David J. Andruczyk wrote:
>  
>
>>cd / ; du -s *
>>
>>Odds are it's /lib/modules filled up if you have several kernels
>>installed..
>>
>>
>>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>File system            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>/dev/hdc3             251M  251M     0 100% /
>>>tmpfs                 758M  4.0K  758M   1% /dev/shm
>>>/dev/hdc8             101G   12G   85G  12% /home
>>>/dev/hdc7             358M  8.1M  331M   3% /tmp
>>>/dev/hdc4             4.6G  516M  3.9G  12% /usr
>>>/dev/hdc5             2.8G  1.6G  1.2G  58% /var
>>>
>>>My / directory is stuffed, I already have /var/logs linked into a
>>>/home dir
>>>how do I take out the trash sort of speak, I guess I should really
>>>know what the culprit file or files that caused the fill up as well 
>>>
>>>Thanks again,
>>>eric
>>>
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