Re: / partition full Solved!!!!

which is what caused the problem. Hmmm Once again many thanks for all your untiring help Mike - Original Message - From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:24 AM Subject: Re: / partition full > On

Re: / partition full

The easiest way to track it down is to use du with the -x flag which will exclude other filesystems (such as /proc, /mnt/Windows, /usr & /var) so the command line ends up being: du -x | sort -rn | head -n 20 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mikevl wrote: > I can somebody please help me out with this.?

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Thanks All I will try this latter today after work Many thanks Mike - Original Message - From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:24 AM Subject: Re: / partition full > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, M

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mikevl wrote: > I can somebody please help me out with this.? > > My root partition seems to be full but I cannot find the files which > fill it up. > > Many thanks > > Mike > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that so many of his > directories (that should be big, like usr) are listed as 4096 > size?... Try inserting your install disk & run the ls command fr

RE: / partition full

- From: Mikevl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: / partition full Thanks to all that have replied Have I missed something. Does the population of other directories affect the / partition? Am I looking for a file in the / direct

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ks > > Mike > - Original Message - > From: "Milanuk, Monte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:52 AM > Subject: RE: / partition full > > > > > > The version that I normally us

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D]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:52 AM Subject: RE: / partition full > > The version that I normally use is like this: > > du -hmc / --exclude=proc --max-depth=2 > > I would unmount any network filesytems prior to starting this, and eject any > removable media. Either

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The version that I normally use is like this: du -hmc / --exclude=proc --max-depth=2 I would unmount any network filesytems prior to starting this, and eject any removable media. Either that or include them w/ their own --exclude= statements in the command call. Once you see where the bulk of

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7;ve been hacked. - -Original Message- From: Mikevl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: / partition full I can somebody please help me out with this.? My root partition seems to be full but I cannot find the files which fill it

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du -sk / | sort -n Thanks -- pady [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mikevl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: / partition full I can somebody please help me out with this.? My root partition seems to be full

/ partition full

I can somebody please help me out with this.? My root partition seems to be full but I cannot find the files which fill it up. Many thanks Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 980M 980M 0 100% / /dev/hdb1

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Easier than that, you make a new partition somewhere, copy (preserving all the permissions) local (or what ever it is), make the entry in the /etc/fstab , delete the directory from its current location, and mount the partition as per the fstab entry. Read the appropriate man pages (fstab, cp, etc