Re: lost disk space
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. While you may have removed the /filenames/, the files may still persist, if opened by a process. Personally, I'd close all the unnecessary applications and all the X sessions, log in at the text VT (usually, Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Alt-F2 switch to one), and carefully examine the list of my running processes with $ ps x. If there's anything that looks like it has entered an infinite loop, or otherwise suspicious, I'd kill it with $ kill (and if it doesn't respond, with $ kill -9.) -- FSF associate member #7257 -- 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/86ei1iwr9a@gray.siamics.net
Re: lost disk space
On 22/07/11 06:20 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca writes: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. While you may have removed the /filenames/, the files may still persist, if opened by a process. Personally, I'd close all the unnecessary applications and all the X sessions, log in at the text VT (usually, Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Alt-F2 switch to one), and carefully examine the list of my running processes with $ ps x. If there's anything that looks like it has entered an infinite loop, or otherwise suspicious, I'd kill it with $ kill (and if it doesn't respond, with $ kill -9.) That's what I ended up doing after I found two 3.5 gig logfiles in /var/log, the result of errors from the Intel driver on this machine. But there were no running processes at that point. Thanks -- Cheers Frank -- 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/4e29734e.4080...@videotron.ca
Re: lost disk space
On 21/07/11 10:16 PM, green wrote: Frank McCormick wrote at 2011-07-20 07:02 -0600: On 20/07/11 08:48 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Try baobab. It's a graphical disk usage analyzer. (I think it comes with gnome.) It's the first thing I thought of after doing some preliminary looking around..but for some reason it's not in Sid on my machine and because I had no space left I couldn't install it :) You may want to try ncdu. Fewer dependencies and much more elegant. I'll have a look..thanks -- Cheers Frank -- 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/4e297418.80...@videotron.ca
Re: lost disk space
On 22/07/11 08:59 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 21/07/11 10:16 PM, green wrote: Frank McCormick wrote at 2011-07-20 07:02 -0600: On 20/07/11 08:48 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Try baobab. It's a graphical disk usage analyzer. (I think it comes with gnome.) It's the first thing I thought of after doing some preliminary looking around..but for some reason it's not in Sid on my machine and because I had no space left I couldn't install it :) You may want to try ncdu. Fewer dependencies and much more elegant. I'll have a look..thanks Yup. Just what I need. Added -x and / to the command line and it's perfect. Thanks -- Cheers Frank -- 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/4e29ec46.5030...@videotron.ca
Re: lost disk space
Frank McCormick wrote at 2011-07-20 07:02 -0600: On 20/07/11 08:48 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Try baobab. It's a graphical disk usage analyzer. (I think it comes with gnome.) It's the first thing I thought of after doing some preliminary looking around..but for some reason it's not in Sid on my machine and because I had no space left I couldn't install it :) You may want to try ncdu. Fewer dependencies and much more elegant. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: lost disk space
On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website)
and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!!
I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but
now I can't find out where it's gone ?
You could try something like
du -h | grep -E ^.{1,5}G
from e.g., your home directory. This will report disk usage of each
FILE, recursively for directories (-h for human-readable sizes) and
pick only those lines that are reported using the Gigabyte unit.
Somewhere in the output of this command, you might find your problem.
Hope that helps,
Martin
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Re: lost disk space
On 07/20/2011 08:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:
On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website)
and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!!
I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but
now I can't find out where it's gone ?
You could try something like
du -h | grep -E ^.{1,5}G
from e.g., your home directory. This will report disk usage of each
FILE, recursively for directories (-h for human-readable sizes) and
pick only those lines that are reported using the Gigabyte unit.
Somewhere in the output of this command, you might find your problem.
Hope that helps,
Martin
Is chrome running ?
It usually keeps only file descriptor open , but file is deleted ...
you can check /proc/{chrome-pid}/fd with ls -l and grep for deleted files
something like that
pidof chrome| sed 's/\s/\n/g' | while read line ; do ls -l
/proc/$line/fd/ | grep deleted | awk -v line=$line '{print
/proc/line/fd/$9}' ; done | xargs ls -lh
lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jul 20 09:43 /proc/22474/fd/22 -
/dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.jWfLZS (deleted)
lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jul 20 09:43 /proc/22474/fd/23 -
/dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.IZGUMb (deleted)
lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jul 20 09:45 /proc/22482/fd/23 -
/dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.jWfLZS (deleted)
lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Jul 20 09:45 /proc/22482/fd/24 -
/dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.IZGUMb (deleted)
lrwx-- 1 malex toor 64 Jul 20 09:43 /proc/22524/fd/25 -
/data/tmp/FlashXXkMs72Y (deleted)
Hope this helps ,
Alex
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Re: lost disk space
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. see man find -- html messages are obsolete -- 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/87oc0p49zh@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: lost disk space
Am 20.07.2011 07:12, schrieb Frank McCormick: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. du -sh * inside the root folder should help you to find the biggest folders. If you do it recursively you can near it down. Cheers, Frank -- 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/4e269f60.6020...@frank.uvena.de
Re: lost disk space
Frank McCormick, 20.07.2011: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. Try baobab. It's a graphical disk usage analyzer. (I think it comes with gnome.) -- 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/20110720124831.ga32...@cs.utexas.edu
Re: lost disk space
On 20/07/11 02:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:
On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website)
and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!!
I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but
now I can't find out where it's gone ?
You could try something like
du -h | grep -E ^.{1,5}G
from e.g., your home directory. This will report disk usage of each
FILE, recursively for directories (-h for human-readable sizes) and
pick only those lines that are reported using the Gigabyte unit.
Somewhere in the output of this command, you might find your problem.
Hope that helps,
Martin
Well, it helped but had to do it in the root, and keep it from
checking every mounted drive :)
Found two files in /var/log...kernel.log and syslog.1 that are more than
3.7 gigs each. I still haven't looked into them to see what was being
logged all the time I was watching streaming video. Are there not
methods in place for preventing this sort of thing? And what's the best
way to deal with them..should I simply delete them ?
At any rate thanks to everyone for the help - I also had a quick look at
man find..and just as quickly got lost in its seemingly thousands of
possible commands :)
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Re: lost disk space
On 20/07/11 08:48 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Frank McCormick, 20.07.2011: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. Try baobab. It's a graphical disk usage analyzer. (I think it comes with gnome.) It's the first thing I thought of after doing some preliminary looking around..but for some reason it's not in Sid on my machine and because I had no space left I couldn't install it :) -- Cheers Frank -- 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/4e26d1fc.3040...@videotron.ca
Re: lost disk space
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:59:21PM +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 20/07/11 02:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote:
du -h | grep -E ^.{1,5}G
Well, it helped but had to do it in the root, and keep it from
checking every mounted drive :)
du -hx | grep -E ^.{1,5}G
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lost disk space
Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I am stumped. -- Cheers Frank -- 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/4e2663a7.9070...@videotron.ca
