>From the prompt enter :
du -x -h | more
and then page through the displayed screens (using the space bar) where
you wil be shown the size of each directory which may help you find the
culprit.
> Hi,
>I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is
> rapidly approaching 100% a
On Apr 11, 2005 4:54 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
> > or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at
> > the top!
>
> Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view.
>
Yeah, I like fileli
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at
> the top!
Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view.
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or "du /|sort -rn|less" for a global view, largest files/directories at
the top!
BillK
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:54 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is
> > rapidly approaching
Thanks all! so many great answers so quickly. Greatly appreciated.
cheers,
Mark
On Apr 11, 2005 4:06 PM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access)
>
> cd /
>
> du --max-depth=1|sort -n
>
> re-iterate by going into the next level you
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>
du -hs /*
This will give you an easy
as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access)
cd /
du --max-depth=1|sort -n
re-iterate by going into the next level you want to look at and doing
the same
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / pa
$ du /|sort -rn|less
the biggest files/dirs will be on top... if you prefer to have this
info in text file just do something like this:
$ du /|sort -rn > hd_use.txt
On Apr 12, 2005 12:43 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partit
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
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?
du -hcs /*
>From there, you can do that in each subdirectory down the line to determin
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, 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?
du -hx --max-depth=1 /
du -hx --max-depth=1 /usr
du -hx
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
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