Tom Knight-Markiegi <tom [at] tomk.homelinux.org> writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:19:02PM -0000, Rob Keeling wrote: > Hi > > [snip] >> does not look good. how do I free up space on /? > > To see what's taking up lots of space try: > > sudo du -h --max-depth=3 --exclude=boot --exclude=backup / | egrep '.*M' > > This should list directories with over 1MB of stuff in them, you may find > somewhere which is using more space than it should, often due to messing up > redirection with > (in my case). Sometimes /root/ gets filled up with junk > if a program outputs to $HOME and you're runninng it as root. Perhaps easier and more useful is: du -x / | sort -n Which just scans / and then provides a sorted list with the largest at the bottom, usually the problem is pretty evident. -- Eric E. Moore
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