Actually I think 'du -H' might be more usefull as a first step. This will
give you the sizes of each directory. It'll be long, but finding the
offending directory will let you find the offending files much quicker.
Just my $.02.
Chris
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk filling up
I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at
the moment. Anyways, type "ls -SalR | more" and it'll list all the files
sorted by size in each directory. So you can look and see which files are
taking up the most space. It's seperated by directory however, so if you
have
a lot of directories, then you'll have to read through each one of them
trying to find the biggest files. Perhaps someone else on this list has
the
"real" command that sorts through all the files and picks out the biggest
ones?
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,
--
Anthony
http://binaryfusion.net
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