On Tuesday 20 September 2011 21:21:24 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > My / does not contain /home, which is on its own large drive. > > hda1 is /, hda2 is swap. > > > > My / has been trundling along at around 30% full for years. Now it has > > suddenly filled up completely. The most likely explanation is that I > > accidentally copied a large directory, say, /home onto hda1. This has > > happened before, but it has been easy to find and put right. This time I > > can't find it. I daren't just wholesale start deleting things on /, and > > even > > I like the 'xdu' command for visualizing where disk space is > consumed. Unfortunately if your system is too full to install it and > if you don't already have it then you will need to work a little bit > to get it. But it is only a single binary executable, very simple, > and doesn't need anything else. The simple but long running way: > > du -xk / | xdu > > Depending upon how much data 'du' has to churn through that could take > a while to run. I typically keep a copy cached from a nightly cron > job that runs it daily. Then it is always quickly available to me. > If you have space in /home on a second disk then to avoid the long run > without feedback I would cache a temporary copy there and run from > there. It is just more pleasant to see that it is making progress and > to have a file to run from repeatedly than the one above. YMMV. > > du -xk / | tee /home/du-xk.out > xdu /home/du-xk.out > > Click the mouse left button on the areas to explore. It is somewhat > interactive. Simple. But quite useful.
Thanks, Bob. I am about to try this - but before pressing enter and putting my box out of commission for the night as a result, I wanted to thank you for yet another constructive reply from this amazing list. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109202138.41789.lisi.re...@gmail.com