On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:46:27 Axel Freyn wrote: > 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...
:-) Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache 37M /var/cache Tux:/home/lisi# Thank you! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
