/ full?

Aaron aaron at aarons.net
Sat Nov 30 02:08:14 CST 2002


Have you done alot of downloading and stored everything in your /root
directory?

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Herrmann" <kclug at ItDepends.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: / full?

> This is the end of that list.  I assume it is rolled up, as in /usr/share
and
> /usr/lib are all rolled up to /usr, and /usr and /home are both included
in
> the / count.  I still don't see where all the space went.  As you can see
> below, the vast majority of my data (10G of 12G) is in my /home partition.
> I'm still confused.
>
> 105900  /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
> 118068  /usr/lib/openoffice/program
> 124196  /usr/X11R6/lib
> 125200  /home/jim/Mail/.ZZArchives.directory/.Inbox.directory
> 125548  /home/jim/Mail/.ZZArchives.directory
> 164544  /usr/bin
> 171692  /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk
> 171748  /usr/src
> 182028  /usr/lib/openoffice
> 186692  /usr/X11R6
> 236036  /home/jim/Mail
> 392064  /usr/share/doc
> 427068  /home/jim/mp3/weather_report/heavy_weather
> 427072  /home/jim/mp3/weather_report
> 514588  /home/jim/mp3/return_to_forever/romantic_warrior
> 514592  /home/jim/mp3/return_to_forever
> 634044  /usr/lib
> 648736  /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Johnny
> 896260  /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Flanders Field
> 949384  /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk/WaveData
> 959580  /home/jim/mp3
> 991208  /usr/share
> 1567236 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio/Cakewalk
> 2242956 /usr
> 3865684 /home/jim/WindozeStuff/Audio
> 4051424 /home/jim/WindozeStuff
> 4652564 /home/jim/Downloads
> 10211116        /home/jim
> 10215744        /home
> 12665840        /
>
> On Friday 29 November 2002 07:23 pm, Duane Attaway wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > >
majordomo at kclug.org
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