/ full?

Duane Attaway dattaway at attaway.net
Sat Nov 30 01:23:29 CST 2002


This will give you a usage breakdown of your root directory:

du / | sort +0n

the n is numeric sort for the 0th column.

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jim Herrmann wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out why my root (/) partition, I have / and /home, shows 
> that it is full.  I have 5.3G allocated to /, and there's only 60M left!  
> Where did it all go.  According to properties in Konqueror, the /usr is only 
> 1.8G, which sounds about right for my install.  /Var is 58M, /lib is 58M, 
> /tmp about 1M, /opt is 73M,. /etc is 8.5M, other insignificant amounts.  
> Where did 2.5G of disk space go?  How can I find it and get it back?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> 
> 




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