Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-17 Thread John Foster
Thanks for all of the tips and advice. I discovered that there were several issues. The main one being the there were many Multiple entries in /var/log/etc... that were of imense size and very old. I cleared these out and am currently trying to figure out a way to do a cron job that will clear out

Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread Rich Puhek
John, Start by doing a cd to / (root directory). Then (as superuser, just to eliminate annoying "permission denied" messages) do: du -sh * | more Which will give you the disk usage of all the subdirectories. One of them will likely be much bigger than the others (probably /var). If so, cd to tha

Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread Brian Nelson
> * Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 11:34 +0200: > > On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:13, John Foster wrote: > > > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I > > > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have > > > been at 63% fu

Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread Andre Berger
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 11:34 +0200: > On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:13, John Foster wrote: > > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I > > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have > > been at 63% full for abo

Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
John Foster wrote: > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have > been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a > disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of m

Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello John, I would start looking at /tmp, then migrate to /var/log then, and this is totally off the wall, in ~/.kde . . . Friend of mine just released nearly 2GB of room in a file called something like ~/.kde/dev_null . . . We still don't know how/what the deal was . . . Best o luck to

Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!

2001-04-13 Thread John Foster
I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of my Linux systems. I checked