[opensuse] Disappearing Disk Space
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I've been meaning to install bigger drives on my domain controller/home server, but I've been putting that off until the upcoming release of SuSE 11.0. Yesterday, however, I logged on and got a dialog telling me that disk space was running out, and I'd better do something. So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free. Admittedly, I could have screwed something up -- work has been intense lately, and my concentration isn't what it should be, but I really don't know where that much space went so fast. I have 1.5 TB of new drives arriving tomorrow, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this mystery sooner, rather than later. I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is. I'm not convinced yet that there's anything evil going on (I've got the server pretty well protected, I think), but I'd sure like to know what's using so much space. If someone has an idea what I could use to take a look, I'd surely be grateful. Jerry in Bothell, WA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-05-23 at 16:20 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free.
30 Gb in a day? something is growing. A log, perhaps.
I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is.
kdirstat, for example. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIN1kgtTMYHG2NR9URAuDpAKCPTQlxDxNHPPM9eMar2Y6Hv39yMgCfQw/9 Yt/DIRVjrPShAVnhS1fYrR4= =EVCL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Friday 23 May 2008 04:20:35 pm Jerry Houston wrote:
I've been meaning to install bigger drives on my domain controller/home server, but I've been putting that off until the upcoming release of SuSE 11.0. Yesterday, however, I logged on and got a dialog telling me that disk space was running out, and I'd better do something.
So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free.
Admittedly, I could have screwed something up -- work has been intense lately, and my concentration isn't what it should be, but I really don't know where that much space went so fast. I have 1.5 TB of new drives arriving tomorrow, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this mystery sooner, rather than later.
I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is.
I'm not convinced yet that there's anything evil going on (I've got the server pretty well protected, I think), but I'd sure like to know what's using so much space. If someone has an idea what I could use to take a look, I'd surely be grateful.
Jerry in Bothell, WA
Try the df command from a terminal. exam: df -h -T use man df for options. Hope this helps. i have 11.0 beta 3. no disk usage issues -- Russ Moses Lake, WA. Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Jerry Houston wrote:
I've been meaning to install bigger drives on my domain controller/home server, but I've been putting that off until the upcoming release of SuSE 11.0. Yesterday, however, I logged on and got a dialog telling me that disk space was running out, and I'd better do something.
So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free.
Admittedly, I could have screwed something up -- work has been intense lately, and my concentration isn't what it should be, but I really don't know where that much space went so fast. I have 1.5 TB of new drives arriving tomorrow, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this mystery sooner, rather than later.
You have something that's spewing a lot of errors to a log file. that's one major reason I put /var on a seperate partition.
I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is.
Try kdirstat
I'm not convinced yet that there's anything evil going on (I've got the server pretty well protected, I think), but I'd sure like to know what's using so much space. If someone has an idea what I could use to take a look, I'd surely be grateful.
Jerry in Bothell, WA
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2008/5/23 Washington Irving <washton.irving@gmail.com>:
Jerry Houston wrote:
I've been meaning to install bigger drives on my domain controller/home server, but I've been putting that off until the upcoming release of SuSE 11.0. Yesterday, however, I logged on and got a dialog telling me that disk space was running out, and I'd better do something.
So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free.
Admittedly, I could have screwed something up -- work has been intense lately, and my concentration isn't what it should be, but I really don't know where that much space went so fast. I have 1.5 TB of new drives arriving tomorrow, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this mystery sooner, rather than later.
You have something that's spewing a lot of errors to a log file.
that's one major reason I put /var on a seperate partition.
I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is.
Try kdirstat
I'm not convinced yet that there's anything evil going on (I've got the server pretty well protected, I think), but I'd sure like to know what's using so much space. If someone has an idea what I could use to take a look, I'd surely be grateful.
Jerry in Bothell, WA
Never used kdirstat, but "du -hs /*" always helps :D Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Ciro Iriarte wrote:
2008/5/23 Washington Irving <washton.irving@gmail.com>:
Jerry Houston wrote:
I've been meaning to install bigger drives on my domain controller/home server, but I've been putting that off until the upcoming release of SuSE 11.0. Yesterday, however, I logged on and got a dialog telling me that disk space was running out, and I'd better do something.
So I moved 30 GB of music files temporarily to my workstation, which has a buttload of room on its drive. That seemed to take care of it, and konqueror showed 30 GB free on the server. Today after work, though, I got another message telling me that it's out of space again. 0.0 KB free.
Admittedly, I could have screwed something up -- work has been intense lately, and my concentration isn't what it should be, but I really don't know where that much space went so fast. I have 1.5 TB of new drives arriving tomorrow, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this mystery sooner, rather than later. You have something that's spewing a lot of errors to a log file.
that's one major reason I put /var on a seperate partition.
I seem to recall that there's a Linux utility or command that will list the biggest files on a drive, showing what's taking up the most room. I'm about to search through my Linux books for a reminder of that, but thought someone here might remember what it is. Try kdirstat
I'm not convinced yet that there's anything evil going on (I've got the server pretty well protected, I think), but I'd sure like to know what's using so much space. If someone has an idea what I could use to take a look, I'd surely be grateful.
Jerry in Bothell, WA
Never used kdirstat, but "du -hs /*" always helps :D
Try it. Dirstat is much quicker for finding disk-wasters. and if you're using du... drop the -h and pipe it into sort. du -s some_path_here_or_* | sort -n examples: du -s * | sort -n du -s ../* | sort -n du -s /* | sort -n But I would avoid the last one...you're doing to do du on ALL your filesystems, when quite obviously, only ONE of them is full. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-05-24 at 01:25 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote: ...
Never used kdirstat, but "du -hs /*" always helps :D
Then just do try kdirsat, it is perfect for finding wastes. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIN+PBtTMYHG2NR9URAoU2AJ4vhRtWTubf7EL7TIhAMd8dSgAEtwCbBbBd yCdD9jqQQuEcGaKXtVdkkC4= =SY6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Washington Irving