On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2004 02:52 am, John Summerfield wrote: > > > These days, disk is cheap in com[arison with time, and you need to keep > > this in mind. It might be better to replace the drive, put the old one > > in a USB enclosure so you can get your important bits back. However, > > some will choose to spend (their own) time to manage their space. > > Drives are cheap, but I have other things I'd rather spend money on at the > moment. Plus there's no excuse for me to be using this much space. How can > I possibly be using > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda8 23G 19G 2.9G 87% /home > > for example. 19 GB of what? I don't see it, but it's there somewhere. > Probably 27,000 files named "foo" or "1" or something. :) > > I'm also starting to fill up /var, even though all the places I know to look > are pretty reasonable (and I did purge the package cache, yes) so I guess > it's time to get off my duff and figure out what's eating what and turn it > down or turn it off. >
I just noticed this. Clearly late in offering help, but Are you familiar with the --max-depth=N option in du? Look in man du. This allows you to quickly get total disk usage below a few top level nodes in the directory tree. And then drill down, if you find a wierd cluster. You should be able to locate the extra junk (if that is what it is) . If junk is evenly distributed throughout the tree it won't help much -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
