Out of {Disk Space,Ideas}

Steve Flynn anothermindbomb at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 15:10:12 UTC 2008


On Jan 11, 2008 3:01 PM, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:47:07PM +0000, Steve Flynn wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008 2:28 PM, Adam McGreggor <lists at amyl.org.uk> wrote:
> > > The issue is deleting stuff does *not* create disk-space. When it ought
> > > to.
> > >
> > > And the files *are* being deleted.
> >
> > An obvious one but something which caught me out once - "rm" isn't
> > aliased to something like "mv $1 ./trash" is it? You thing you're
> > deleting the datasets but all you're doing is shuffling them off
> > somewhere....
>
> nope!

Bugger.

I guess you could always produce a huge "ls -alR /", pipe it to sort
and top the first 20 lines to see if there's anything monster lurking
out there. I presume you've already done something similar though and
if so, then you have the better of me Adam...

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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