an awful problem, disc space is disappearing

[Graham Watkins]

Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> This morning my root partition was 6gb large and had 49% free space.
> This evening I was trying to install the game supertux and found there
> was no disc space. I'm using a simple desktop installation. I have
> apache and proftp installed and running but a firewall blocks remote
> connections to them. Something just ate about 3gb in one day and I
> didn't do anything to warrant that. Furthermore only yesterday I had the
> same problem but I put it down to a power failure, I ended up deleting
> all my LVs, my PV, VG and the partition and restoring.  How do I find
> out where my 3GB went? And then find what took it and why?
>
>
>   
I've had similar experiences in another distro.  The problem seemed to 
be due to temp files created when I had a lot of files open with Open 
Office.  A good place to start looking will be any /temp or /tmp folders 
you have. 

A program I have found useful is fsv which gives a graphical 
representation of the contents of your system and will indicate if any 
folders have grown suspiciously large.

Hope this helps.

Graham

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