/ full - 5.6 gig partition

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:31, Richard Whitney wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> All of a sudden my root partition is full - I usually have about 1.5 gigs free
> I have it running like a server - sort of - it's open but no one knows about it
> 
> Any ideas?

Try:

du -ks /*

That should narrow down which top-level directory has filled up. If that
was /var you could then do:

du -ks /var/*

to narrow it down to another level etc.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>