Constipated Ibex

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 09 April 2009 17:39, Brian McKee wrote:
> 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

Just an observation on how quick a partition can be filled up to the redline, 
even with small files/entries. I installed the e-Sword windows program, which 
runs under Wine. The main e-Sword .exe installed the app ok, then I tried 
installing other bible versions, which were downloaded separately, and you 
need to run the .exe's for them to be installed. I tried one of them, but 
nothing seemed to be happening. let it run for a few minutes, but nothing, so 
closed it, or killed it with mouse pointer of death (can't remember now).

Skipping a bit, as I now could not run other apps.

Kdiskfree showed my /home/user partition redlining. I found that 
~/.xsession-errors contained 3.6GB of entries. Deleted the .xsession-errors 
file, created a new one, and ran the suspect windows.exe again, this time for 
less than a minute, xsession errors were being added like they were going out 
of fashion.

How long it took, when originally running the problem windows.exe, to add 
3.6GB of xsession-errors to ~/.xsession-errors, I don't know. But it wasn't 
long. 

As I say, this is only an observation as to how quick your partition can be 
filled to the redline, when something goes wrong.

Nigel.