Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 11:41:11, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I hope this is going to the list and not to Andei directly. It did go to me :) Putting it back on list now. > It worked. > di -hx --max-depth=1 /home/directory |sort -h|less > > I found a 295G .vnc/WORKSTATION:5904.log file > which gave me so

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 17:42:48, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 18:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > My personal favorite: > > > > du -hx --max-depth=1 | sort -h > > > > You can use the short option -d instead of --max-depth, and make it's > parameter '1' come straight after [1], so

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> du -hd1 | sort -h > then 'cd' into a likely candidate directory and repeat. Hmmm here's what I do instead: du | sort -n | tail -n 100 -- Stefan

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 18:13 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home > > > partition > > > filled. > > > > I find "du | sort

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:13:51 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > > > filled. > > > > I find "du | sort -n"

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 10:45:22, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. > > I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. > Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. Please show us. (the output

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:02:23, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > > filled. > > I find "du | sort -n" useful in such situations. Start at /home and > work your way down. My per

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:45:22 -0500 Mitchell Laks wrote: > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition > filled. I find "du | sort -n" useful in such situations. Start at /home and work your way down. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com ht

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread songbird
Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. > > I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. > Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. > Same thing happened when i did -m2. > > Ok how to find th

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread IL Ka
> > tried du -sh on /home/username /* etc. > and what was the output? I use $ du -d1 | sort -n Also, try "ncdu".

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-14 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thursday 14 August 2008 13:39:50 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,14.Aug.08, 00:59:46, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > > [...] > > > [solution 2] /home/ partition is NTFS. www.ntfs-3g.org says that ntfs-3g > > Linux read/write driver supports ownership/permissions under Linux (using > > mapping of users

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,14.Aug.08, 00:59:46, Anton Liaukevich wrote: [...] > [solution 2] /home/ partition is NTFS. www.ntfs-3g.org says that ntfs-3g > Linux read/write driver supports ownership/permissions under Linux (using > mapping of users). Unfortunately (as I know) Debian-Installer doesn't > support ntf

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:55:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/13/08 20:39, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>> I have Debian Lenny & MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different >>> partitions of my hdd. >>> >> >> [snip] >> >>> What solut

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/13/08 16:59, Anton Liaukevich wrote: [snip] Regrettably, for some reasons, I need to use MS Windows sometimes. Moreover, some users of my computer don't like Unix. "This is your anti-virus software..." But seriously, I think the only solution would be to use a hypervisor and run Linux

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/13/08 20:39, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I have Debian Lenny & MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different partitions of my hdd. [snip] What solution is better or are there any other good solutions? use nfs (microsoft provide a

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > I have Debian Lenny & MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different > partitions of my hdd. > [snip] > What solution is better or are there any other good solutions? use nfs (microsoft provide a free nfs client for XP, 2000 - haven

Re: /home partition

2003-09-06 Thread alex
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /h

Re: /home partition

2003-09-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: > I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the > installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the > partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory.

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread alex
VEGH Karoly wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: I read the data in hda2 but there's nothing there except ./ and ../. When I read the regular /home directory (under /), all the usual /home data is present. The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread alex
Wathen, Metherion wrote: I'm not an epert but I believe that you must add an entry in fstab for hda2 as the /home directory. the entry should read something like the following: /hda2 ext2 /home defaults 0 0 others on the list can prolly better advise but that is pretty much how my system is

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread John Stevenson
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there shows that there is a separate partition for /home. If there is no entry in /etc/fstab for a partition is will not be mounted (unless you use a manual mount command with all the necessary options). The command df will tell you w

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
alex wrote: I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory. Instead, the regular /home directory under / seems to be doing the job. So something went wrong

RE: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread Wathen, Metherion
I'm not an epert but I believe that you must add an entry in fstab for hda2 as the /home directory. the entry should read something like the following: /hda2 ext2 /home defaults 0 0 others on the list can prolly better advise but that is pretty much how my system is setup. you might also sea

Re: /home partition

2003-09-05 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0400, alex wrote: > I read the data in hda2 but there's nothing there except > ./ and ../. When I read the regular /home directory (under /), all > the usual /home data is present. > > The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there > shows t