Lisi wrote, on 09/21/11 19:47: > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:46:27 Axel Freyn wrote: >> Hi Lisi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: >>> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>>> On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: >>>>> And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. >>>> >>>> Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a >>>> GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, >>>> assuming the problem is a hosed/misconfigured program. If the problem >>>> is the result of an errant drag/drop the files causing the undue >>>> swelling could be in any directory you had/have write access to. >>>> >>>> # du -s -h /var >>>> # du -s -h /var/log >>>> # du -s -h /var/cache >>>> # du -s -h /var/tmp >>>> # du -s -h /lost+found >>>> # du -s -h /root >>>> # du -s -h /tmp >>>> # du -s -h /usr >>> >>> /var/cache and /usr are 6 G between them, so are certainly not >>> small. /var/log is not very big at all. But that still doesn't explain >>> the jump. Perhaps I have started doing something differently without >>> realising it. >>> >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var >>> 2.9G /var >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log >>> 320M /var/log >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache >>> 2.3G /var/cache >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/tmp >>> 43M /var/tmp >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /lost+found >>> 16K /lost+found >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /root >>> 3.4M /root >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /tmp >>> 120K /tmp >>> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /usr >>> 3.7G /usr >>> Tux:/home/lisi# >> >> For /var/cache: did you clean the package cache? "aptitude clean" might >> help... (depending on your configuration it MIGHT be that you have many >> old .deb-Archives in /var/cache/apt/archives) >> So, if "du -s -h /var/cache/apt/archives" reports something large, this >> might be the problem... > > :-) > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache > 37M /var/cache > Tux:/home/lisi# > > Thank you! > > Lisi > > But the cleaning of the package cache only removed ~ 2.3 GB. And summing up the above listed disk usage makes only appr. 10 GB. So were do the other 20 GB come from? I would like to see the output of
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