[Charlug] Out of Space Reported by Logwatch

[Leam Hall]

du -xk | sort -n

FYI, 400M is a small / partition. You'd be better off switching /tmp and /.

Leam


Michael McCandless wrote:
> On Fedora 10, logwatch reports 'disk filling up', specifically:
> 
> --------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------
> 
>  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>  /dev/sda3             373M  351M  2.1M 100% /
>  /dev/sda8             494M   11M  458M   3% /home
>  /dev/sda7            1012M   34M  927M   4% /tmp
>  /dev/sda6             3.0G  314M  2.6G  11% /var
>  /dev/sda5             4.0G  2.4G  1.4G  64% /usr
>  /dev/sda1             373M   31M  323M   9% /boot
> 
>  /dev/sda3 => 100% Used. Warning. Disk Filling up.
> 
> ---------------------- Disk Space End -------------------------
> 
> How do I (easily) find what is taking up so much space?  When I do:
> ll /
> 
> I just get a bunch of directories, e.g.:
> 
> ll -hs /
> total 87K
> 4.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 3.0K 2009-01-25 04:06 bin
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 1.0K 2009-01-30 22:22 boot
>    0 drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4.0K 2009-01-30 22:34 dev
>  10K drwxr-xr-x 118 root root 9.0K 2009-01-31 00:00 etc
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 1.0K 2008-12-27 04:17 home
>  10K drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 9.0K 2009-01-25 04:06 lib
>  13K drwx------   2 root root  12K 2008-12-24 09:51 lost+found
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1.0K 2008-09-06 06:13 media
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1.0K 2008-09-06 06:13 mnt
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1.0K 2008-09-06 06:13 opt
>    0 dr-xr-xr-x  89 root root    0 2009-01-30 22:32 proc
> 2.0K drwxr-x---   3 root root 1.0K 2009-01-31 01:37 root
>  10K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 9.0K 2009-01-25 04:06 sbin
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1.0K 2008-12-24 10:09 selinux
> 2.0K drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 1.0K 2008-09-06 06:13 srv
>    0 drwxr-xr-x  12 root root    0 2009-01-30 22:32 sys
> 8.0K drwxrwxrwt   4 root root 4.0K 2009-01-31 09:41 tmp
> 8.0K drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 4.0K 2008-12-25 04:45 usr
> 8.0K drwxr-xr-x  24 root root 4.0K 2008-12-26 19:29 var
> 
> What command(s) do I execute to tell me what is taking up all my space on /
> ?
> 
> -------------------------
> Michael McCandless
> michael at prismbiz.com
> 
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