Constipated Ibex

[Franz Waldmüller]

Nigel Henry schrieb:
> 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....
>>
a grat tool to analyse the file system is ncdu (run from the command line)
install:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ncdu
to run type
ncdu /
with the arrow and enter keys you can
I don't know if root privileges are required to scan /
wish you luck
Franz