Trash

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:20 -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > > I've spend a few hours copying and deleting pictures off of my
> > > > > hard drive to CD's.  I still have no more space than when I
> > > > > started.  Last time this happened I found everything in a trash
> > > > > file but the only trash file I can find is empty.
> > > > >
> > > > > Suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Use df to see what partition is full. You can use du -h in different
> > > > directories to get to where it's being used.
> > > >
> > > > If you can find the app filelight for your version, or you want to
> > > > build it from source, you can get a nice piture of where things are
> > > > being used.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps,
> > > > Mark
> > > >
> > > Thanks - problem is it's one large directory on one large drive
> > > (160G drive, one directory /photos).  With two daughters using
> > > high resolution digital cameras it fills up fast.
> > >
> > > This drive is just a linux file server, nothing fancy loaded on
> > > it - no graphical window program.  Can I use firelight on my
> > > desktop to view the server?
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> >
> > Sure, filelight could view that although if it's as simple as you say
> > then du -h in the directory that has the photos should prove or
> > disprove that this is where the disk space is being consumed.
> >
> > Have you checked your temp directories? Also look at /var/log, etc.,
> > for stuff over there. If you've been running the server for a while
> > then the log files could be taking up more space than you think.
> > Recently I had a driver update cause one machine here at home to start
> > spewing millions of lines into a log file and got into a bit of a
> > problem for awhile.
> >
> > Good luck finding the culprit.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the information - Got into it tonight and now I've
> only got 8% used so - didn't do anyting that I know about so?????
> 
> Anyway, I've got some space available, then the photo shooting
> begin.

Remember that reclaimed space may not show up in a "du -h" command
until ALL programs using that directory terminate or close their open
file handles to that filesystem.  The surest way of doing that is to
reboot or do use "lsof" or "fuser" to identify processes with open
file descriptors on the filesystem in question and shutting down those
processes.

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