You look for the biggest file.  (I feel a GOML moment approaching.)

On 05/09/2011 03:48 AM, Daniel Linux wrote:
What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general
question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an
answer.

Thanks,

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace
<lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk>wrote:

On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote:

Yes, I need generic steps. After running   df -h   I know what
filesystem is almost full. What should I do?

du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit
the output.


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