Now THAT is awesome! I love this OS. It seems there are more ways to skin
this cat then you can shake a stick at and they just keep coming!
Thanks, I'll give that a try and let you know how I make out.
Mark
On Friday 22 December 2000 22:24, you wrote:
> Mark,
>
> In the event that you have one or more large files eating
> this space, you could use the find command to locate them.
> Start high, and keep doing it, dropping the size by a couple
> meg each time. The syntax would be like this:
>
> find / -size x -print
>
> or to look in your /home directories, use
>
> find /home -size x -print
>
> where "x" is the size of the file in blocks (512-byte
> blocks, that is). It would be nice to search for files of a
> certain size _and_ modification date, but find can't do
> that. Maybe locate can?
>
> Miark
> Registered Linux user #197870
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:25 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Disk filling up
>
> > Hi list.
> >
> > Something strange happened to me today here at work. I
>
> had received an
>
> > attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On
>
> a lark I decided to
>
> > attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious,
>
> so sue me!
>
> > Anyway, things didn't go well. X crashed and "something"
>
> happened that ate up
>
> > ALL the remaining available space on my /home partition.
>
> I've checked and
>
> > rechecked and checked again and for the life of me I can't
>
> find or figure out
>
> > what in the world is going on or what is being written to
>
> that is causeing
>
> > this. It's very bizzare. What in the world could have
>
> happened and what can I
>
> > do to regain the space on my HDD? Before this happened the
>
> partition was only
>
> > at 26% used. It is now at 86% and that is after I got rid
>
> of a bunch of junk
>
> > files that I know I didn't need.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > ..Wisdom begins when the mouth is closed and
> > the palms are turned upward.
