Bob S said the following on 10/25/2009 10:28 PM:
I ran the commands you each kindly provided me. The one Ken provided just returned an "8036". I ran the command Mike provided and got hundreds of lines which I don't understand. Boy, it took forever. Went and ate my supper while waiting.
Is that first part of the line the size in bytes?
That's what the manual page says. I'm inclined to believe it in the absence of other evidence. Here are the last 20 lines
and I will explain some about what is there:
... 3333220 ./usr ... 4312556 ./home/bob ... 4798220 ./home ... 6937992 ./fat ... .... 75112312 . Easystreet:/ #
We are seeing 3 different disks here. Any of those designated 10.2, 10.3. workspace, and datastorage are on different drives.
OK so we can ignore those. We can also ignore their contribution to the last line. However I need to be reminded as to what partitions are mounted. If /usr or /home is on the root FS (or have links that end up there!) then that could be a source of the size of the partition. It would have been easier if you had done this in single user mode with all the other partitions unmounted -- cd / init 1 login as root umount -a then run the du
PS to Dave Rankin. I looked at every one of those log files. PS to Anton. I also followed your advice to no avail. Nothing strange.
Ok, so nothing in the root's /tmp But my point about unmounting all the file systems and not running any processes that might be creating temporary files is part of the detective process. (I'm perfectly aware of the '-mount option in 'find' and the '-x' option in 'du') Next up, "Hidden Files" One again, do the cd / init 1 login as root umount -a Now cd / find / -name '.[a-z0-9]*' -print | du -s With a couple of exceptions such as .mozilla, .kde, .gnome and such like there should be nothing there above single digits. -- "Meanwhile, come what may, Colonel Moran will trouble us no more. The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum, and once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "The Adventure of the Empty House" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org