Hi Lisi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: > > > And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. > > > > Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI > > workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, assuming > > the problem is a hosed/misconfigured program. If the problem is the > > result of an errant drag/drop the files causing the undue swelling could > > be in any directory you had/have write access to. > > > > # du -s -h /var > > # du -s -h /var/log > > # du -s -h /var/cache > > # du -s -h /var/tmp > > # du -s -h /lost+found > > # du -s -h /root > > # du -s -h /tmp > > # du -s -h /usr > > /var/cache and /usr are 6 G between them, so are certainly not > small. /var/log is not very big at all. But that still doesn't explain the > jump. Perhaps I have started doing something differently without realising > it. > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var > 2.9G /var > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log > 320M /var/log > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache > 2.3G /var/cache > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/tmp > 43M /var/tmp > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /lost+found > 16K /lost+found > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /root > 3.4M /root > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /tmp > 120K /tmp > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /usr > 3.7G /usr > Tux:/home/lisi# For /var/cache: did you clean the package cache? "aptitude clean" might help... (depending on your configuration it MIGHT be that you have many old .deb-Archives in /var/cache/apt/archives) So, if "du -s -h /var/cache/apt/archives" reports something large, this might be the problem...
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