i normally go to the mount point (ie highest level dir for that disk) and issue:
du -k | sort -n
that way you see where the space is going in descending sequence
good luck,
steve
Naveen, Nahata (IE10) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Please respond to
I'm new in the unix world, so get stuck in simple things like this.
I'm thankful to the list, since I didn't get rebuked for asking a non-oracle
question.
du (disk usage) worked easily for me, though Jared's idea of using find was
amusing, I'll get acquainted with that command as well.
Regards
Check out the du (disk usage) command.
man du
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Hi All,
Sorry for an OT question, but nowhere else to go. Pretty new to Solaris
so might be a naive question. Need a pointer on how to do
this.
The disk space in the machine is constantly decreasing. And I
Naveen,
Since you are new to Solaris, how new are you to unix/linux? If you
are already aware of anything, I apoligize:
spool the output of df -k to a file. I really like the script command
for this. Wait some time (long enough for more disk to get used) and do
it again (rename the first
One way to determine where to start looking is via find:
find / -mtime -1 -type f -print | xargs ls -ld
This will find all files touched within the list day.
If you get the gnu version of find, you can use '-mmin -30' to find all
files touched in the last 30 minutes.
You can then play with
Naveen - Are you using autoextend on any of your datafiles?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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One way to determine where to start looking is via find:
find /
