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Re: Creeping /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Wangsmo)
Thu Nov 14 12:05:59 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:28:41 -0700 (MST)
From: Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Christopher J. Booth wrote:
>
> > My / partition,device,file has expanded and become 100% full, and very
> > little will work now. Is there a fix for this?
> >
> > Why does this happen?
>
> Perhaps you have installed more software, perhaps log files have filled up
> in /var, perhaps temporary files have accumulated in /tmp - look around
> and find out ;-)
As root, in the / directory type:
du | sort -rn | more
This will search your entire / directory system and sort each
subdirectory by size. It will tell you where you have the most space
taken up. It should help you locate any suspicious disk consumption
spots. Be patient as it will take a bit of time to read the entire
directory and sort it.
Mike
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