[SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread bill
I;m running Kubuntu Hardy 8.40 beta. I have "/" on a 10 gb partition and "/home" on a separate 10gb partition. I am suddenly getting messages that there is not enough room in "/tmp" or that my partition is full. As I remember, the initial install used something like 6 or 7 gb. I have not in

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Peter Chubb
> "bill" == bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bill> I;m running Kubuntu Hardy 8.40 beta. bill> I have "/" on a 10 gb partition and "/home" on a separate 10gb bill> partition. bill> I am suddenly getting messages that there is not enough room in bill> "/tmp" or that my partition is full. Do

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Peter Rundle
Ideas and suggestions please. du -a -x / | sort -rn | more -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

RE: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Visser, Martin
mail, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bill Sent: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:26 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls I;m running Kub

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:28 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > Do a df -k to see which partitions are full or close to full. > Do an > apt-get clean > to delete downloaded and finished-with .debs > > Then start looking for large files. You could also: du -k to find directories that use l

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Kelvin Nicholson
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:25 +1000, bill wrote: > I am suddenly getting messages that there is not enough room in "/tmp" > or that my partition is full. du has always been helpful for me in locating large files. Try under /: # du -cksh * Then go exploring from there. Cheers, Kelvin -- Kel

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Mick Pollard
Hi, On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:25:36 +1000 bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I;m running Kubuntu Hardy 8.40 beta. > > I have "/" on a 10 gb partition and "/home" on a separate 10gb partition. > > I am suddenly getting messages that there is not enough room in "/tmp" > or that my partition is fu