[nflug] uhoh

joshj at linuxmail.org joshj at linuxmail.org
Wed Aug 9 10:41:19 EDT 2006


When we last left our adventurers...

> 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

Use ducks. Change into / and do:

du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11

That'll give you the top culprits. Or at least, the top dir-culprits. Then 
you can move into each directory and do it again to narrow it down.

-Josh

>
> Thanks again,
> eric
>
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