-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: > Sean, > > Thanks for your suggestion, when running 'du -c' from / I get an enormous > list of files and then the bottom total is: '685472 total' > I use "du -Pacmx --max-depth=1 . |sort -g" This will force the output to be in MB, and then sort and total the results. I have an alias in my .bashrc for this as it is kinda cumbersome to type every time.
> This is on a 2GB disk so it would seem that this 100% utilized disk space > isn't right and perhaps indicates a corruption issue, would you concur? Not really, it says that your disk is full. There are a hundred possible causes, and corruption is not the most likely (but still possible). > > Cheers, > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 22 June 2009 21:59 > To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] check/repair fs > > You can use the du command. It will tell you the size of all of the > files and directories in a directory. > > Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: >> --> >> >> Hello Guys, >> >> I've got a system which went down here, when getting it back up and >> running the disk usage is at 100% which seems really odd. I want to >> check for corruption but obviously can't do this as the partition is >> mounted. Is there any way to ensure a check/repair next time the >> system reboots before the partition is mounted? >> >> Otherwise, is there any good way to find what is eating all my disk >> space? I'm wondering is something is creating a huge log or db >> somewhere on the system which I'm not aware of, If I can track down >> the file that might help. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rob >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Voyage-linux mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpAXi0ACgkQwRXgH3rKGfOaawCdGXbaGJNx9OjNeDAeoDrIYbEn CdUAnjrghfddFH6wbg6X5rRI2YHj/yZ9 =SBwI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
