Constipated Ibex

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Pete Clapham <pc44062 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, all --
>>>
>>> My server using Intrepid appears to have a constipated  root directory.
>>> Here is the output from the df -h.  As you can see, the / drive is 100%
>>> used.
>>
>> find is your friend.....
>>
>>  sudo find / -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; |less
>
> That will only find single files larger than 50000. It won't find, for
> instance, a folder full of 1 MB log files.
>
> I would just do:
>
> du / --max-depth=3
>
> It will take a while to run, but should give you a clearer picture.

Granted - I should have explained it better.  I just figured if he's
out in excess of a hundred gig than there must be some rather large
files involved....

Brian