well, as everyone pointed out, df was the utility I needed. Thank you for helping me in my ignorance... in fact, I had stupidly placed a large directory full of mp3's on the root partition, hence the problem. sorry to be so stupid. andthanks as usual! matt
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:50:43PM +0100, David Dumortier wrote: > Hello > > > files in other places. Any hints? > > One !!! > Try anothere OS ... and die !! ;-)) > > > more info (cat of fstab, du of /tmp): > > /dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > df is more usuable ! > > > du of /tmp: > > matt@anarres://$ sudo du /tmp > > 4 /tmp/.X11-unix > > 4 /tmp/.font-unix > > 4 /tmp/ssh-XXtzyXgi > > 456 /tmp/kde-matt > > 8 /tmp/ksocket-matt > > 4 /tmp/.ICE-unix > > 8 /tmp/mcop-matt > > 8 /tmp/orbit-root > > 8 /tmp/orbit-matt > > 4 /tmp/ksocket-root > > 740 /tmp > > df / is more usuable but think U need mor space on /tmp ! mzke a whole > patition for it (ext2 don't ned journal !) > > David Dumortier > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]