Overnight, I lost about 3Gb of disk space. How can I locate the biggest files to see what is eating the space? Thanks in Advance. Ed Harrison
Well if you don't want to get into arcana the easiest thing is to use
Kfind in KDE. In the advanced tab there is a size option.
Corvin
Toronto
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Corvin Russell
Try: find / -type f -size +10000k -mtime -3 -exec ls -l {} \; (as root) This will list full details on all regular files that are larger than about 10M in size and were last modified with in the last 48 hours This could be a long list, so you might want to redirect the output into a file for perusal... James
Overnight, I lost about 3Gb of disk space. How can I locate the biggest files to see what is eating the space? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 7.x) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 0.99 (RC1) NEW: Advogato diary at www.advogato.org/person/riggwelter
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* James Ogley
Try:
find / -type f -size +10000k -mtime -3 -exec ls -l {} \;
find / -xdev -type f -size +10000k -mtime -3 -ls | sort -n -k 7,7 [note -xdev only searches the local disk very useful if you are mounting NFS disks]
* Ed Harrison
Overnight, I lost about 3Gb of disk space.
How can I locate the biggest files to see what is eating the space?
$ du / | sort -n -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
$ du / | sort -n
Nah, that only shows the size of directories, which could prove to be misleading... -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 7.x) This email was created and sent with Ximian Evolution 0.99 (RC1) NEW: Advogato diary at www.advogato.org/person/riggwelter *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************
Some programs will create files in /tmp and unlink() it immediately, to prevent its being tampered with. This file will exist for as long as the program has an active reference to it, and disappear when the program either exits or closes the file. Such files won't be found with either du or find, at least I think not. So if you don't find anything with the suggestions made by others, try closing programs, and see if that frees up space. regards Anders On Thursday 15 November 2001 16:44, Ed Harrison wrote:
Overnight, I lost about 3Gb of disk space.
How can I locate the biggest files to see what is eating the space?
Thanks in Advance.
Ed Harrison
On Thursday 15 November 2001 09:44, Ed Harrison wrote:
Overnight, I lost about 3Gb of disk space.
How can I locate the biggest files to see what is eating the space?
Thanks in Advance.
Ed Harrison
If you are using Konqueror just sort on the 'size' column (Click the column titlebar) Jerry
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