Help! My disk is full!

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Tue May 11 10:29:30 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:13 am, Edward wrote:
> Huan Deng wrote:
> > Hello, Guys,
> >
> > It is so strange that my hard disk is full in a very short time. Almost
> > 30GB+ space is consumed in a few hour.
> >
> > I checked the disk using command df -k
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda2              7052496   2858552   3835696  43% /
> > /dev/sda1               101089     15076     80794  16% /boot
> > /dev/sda6             60989924  56854996   1036796  99% /home
> > none                   2065448         0   2065448   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sda5               396623     70972    305170  19% /var
> >
[snip]
> > Anybody can help me?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> cd /
> du | sort -nr | more
>
> Regards,
> Ed.

The following variation will ignore all except the /home fs.

du -kx /home|sort -rn|more
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