On Friday 12 November 2004 21:47, Colin Murphy wrote:
I ran it in single user mode, so I think the root partition was unmounted. Right or wrong?
No, it was mounted, but there shouldn't be any significant processes running in runlevel 1 holding files, so that I think can be ruled out
linux:/tmp # du 0 ./.ICE-unix 0 ./kde-colin 0 ./ksocket-colin 0 ./.X11-unix 0 ./.font-unix 4 . linux:/tmp #
OK, so your problem isn't in /tmp
From the command line what command can I run to give a list of file in /, listed in size order, starting with the largest?
Hm, one way would be find / -type f -xdev -exec du -s {} \; |sort -g but that would take forever. A better way would be to log in as root, unmount /home, and run "du -s /*". That will tell you which directory takes up an inordinate amount of space. Say it's /usr for example, then you'd do "du -s /usr/*" and continue drilling down until you've found the culprit