Filling up /

[Ian Rose]

ben wrote:
> On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:32, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>   
>> On 5/7/06, Ian Rose <ian at themagictree.co.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> sudo apt-get autoclean will remove old downloaded files
>>>       
>> Thanks, Ian. But it didn't help much:
>> # df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda2             11535344   9928860   1020516  91% /
>> tmpfs                   128388         0    128388   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                   128388     12588    115800  10%
>> /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
>> /dev/hda6              6965472   2107108   4504536  32% /home
>> /dev/hda3             19226508  16911904   1353280  93%
>> /home/dotancohen/pictures
>> /dev/hdb1             28849884  15076152  12331240  56%
>> /home/dotancohen/music root at ety:/# apt-get autoclean
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Del libnautilus-extension1 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1 [63.0kB]
>> -- snip --
>> # df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda2             11535344   9864500   1084876  91% /
>> tmpfs                   128388         0    128388   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                   128388     12588    115800  10%
>> /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
>> /dev/hda6              6965472   2107108   4504536  32% /home
>> /dev/hda3             19226508  16911904   1353280  93%
>> /home/dotancohen/pictures
>> /dev/hdb1             28849884  15076152  12331240  56%
>> /home/dotancohen/music #
>>
>> I see that /var is about 1 GB is size and /usr is about 2.2 GB. I
>> thought that those two would be the major hogs, but it seems about
>> right. What else should I check?
>>
>> Dotan Cohen
>> http://IE-Only.com
>>
>> -
>>     
>
> try
> 'sudo du -sh /*'
> to give u a breakdown of usage from / dir then cd into the main offending dirs 
> and 
> 'sudo du -sh ./*'
>
>   
For those of us who are addicted to gui tools (!) kdesu konqueror, then 
use the "View" > "View Mode" > "File Size View" is a very quick way of 
finding out where all that lovely storage space went to in situations 
like this.

-- 
Ian