On Wednesday 21 September 2011 22:54:54 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [snip] > 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 > > du -hx --max-depth=1 / | sort -h
Oh, Father Christmas, my blessings on you fall, for bringing him a big, red, India rubber ball! Thank you so much, all of you for your extreme patience and helpful attitude. This really is a *super* list. This is better than an India rubber ball, even a big, red one. I now have loads of space in a partition that is never as much as 10GB, and still have some cruft which I intend to cull, having had it pointed out to me by you lot. I didn't know about the --max-depth=1 option, and my attempts to do this without the depth limit gave me so much overkill, that I couldn't see the wood for the trees. I even got as far as realising that Distros were in some way implicated, without the penny dropping. Doh! :-( I now know why the system did not warn me - it didn't get a chance. I knocked it right up by 22G all in one fell swoop. I ought to have realised that this was the problem. I won't embarrass myself by telling you what I thought I had done. I have put myself in a corner with a dunce's cap on. See below for my recent activity. Now I shall get down to using all the other suggestions. There is still some cruft to be explored. Lisi Tux:/home/lisi# du -hx --max-depth=1 / | sort -h sort: invalid option -- h Try `sort --help' for more information. Tux:/home/lisi# du -hx --max-depth=1 / | sort -n 0 /dev 0 /proc 0 /sys 3.4M /root 3.7G /usr 4.0K /backup 4.0K /home 4.0K /mnt 4.0K /selinux 4.2M /bin 6.2M /sbin 11M /etc 16K /lost+found 17M /boot 23G /media 27G / 70M /lib 87M /opt 104K /tmp 200K /srv 662M /var Tux:/home/lisi# du -hx --max-depth=1 /media | sort -n 4.0K /media/cdrom0 4.0K /media/cdrom1 4.0K /media/floppy0 4.0K /media/sdc2 4.0K /media/sdc6 4.0K /media/USB-HDD 22G /media/sdc1 23G /media 164M /media/Distros Tux:/home/lisi# cd /media/sdc1 Tux:/media/sdc1# ls Distros Tux:/media/sdc1# rm -r /media/sdc1/* Tux:/media/sdc1# cd .. Tux:/media# cd .. Tux:/# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 73G 4.9G 66G 7% / tmpfs 745M 0 745M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 708K 9.4M 7% /dev tmpfs 745M 0 745M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 231G 38G 182G 17% /home Tux:/# -- 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/201109221612.17169.lisi.re...@gmail.com