as root...
cd /
du -csh * this gives you the starting points.
Then, maybe from another console cd to, for instance, /var, and...
du -csh * this gives you the next points assuming /var was big.
Continue until you have the offending dir, back up until you find another one, and repeat as needed.
Slowish, but simple and effective and *moderately* error-proof; be sure what is in a dir before you whack it!
For Gentoo, try /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage/distfiles; they are likely candidates in this distro.
Don't forget your logfiles!: /var/log/*/*/...
rgh.
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used?
thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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