Re: home directory full now


Subject: Re: home directory full now
From: David C. Hacker, DVM (dh55145@alltel.net)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 03:38:45 MDT


/home is the only directory on this partition. When I done du /home It didn't
show that the disk was full. I unmounted it and ran fsck and then rebooted and
it shows 7% full now so I will watch and see what happens. Thanks for the help

On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> --On Friday, June 01, 2001 3:14 PM -0400 "Sean O. Denney"
> <sdenney@cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
> > A core dump or a recurring print spool may be the culprit. Do a
> > search for files > 20 MB.
>
> 'find /home -size +20000k' will accomplish this search.
>
> Another handy command line is 'du -a /home| sort -nr | head' which prints
> your top 20 or so largest files.
>
> You didn't mention whether your home directory is on the same partition as
> /var (or some other likely culprit). The output of 'df' would help pin this
> down.
>
> --
> Charles Lepple <charles@ghz.cc>
> http://ghz.cc/charles/

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