On Thursday 05 March 2009 08:08:23 Jay Mistry wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Foolishly I allowed indexing of a remote data disk, and now I find that > > my local disk is dangerously full. I tried 'du -x / | sort -n' to find > > where the big file is, without success. On the 3rd February I had 1.9G > > free in /home - now it is 195MB. Actually, it's worse than I said (only just awake and mis-read the directory). 3rd February --------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 7.8G 5.6G 1.9G 75% / /dev/sda7 33G 13G 21G 38% /home /dev/sda2 8.8G 7.7G 1.2G 88% /mnt/win_c /dev/sda3 2.0G 375M 1.6G 19% /mnt/win_d now Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 7.8G 5.9G 1.6G 79% / /dev/sda7 33G 33G 197M 100% /home /dev/sda2 8.8G 7.7G 1.2G 88% /mnt/win_c /dev/sda3 2.0G 375M 1.6G 19% /mnt/win_d so I'm looking for something really big in /home > > What do I look for to reclaim this > > space? Thanks > > > > Anne > > Check using KdIrStat (I have ver 2.4.4 that works on KDE 4.2.1- though > it says "using KDE 3.5.9. I have KDE 3.5.9 with it's KDE3 Base also > installed), else you can use FileLight > (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/) to check what files take up how > much space. > KdirStat tells me where I can reclaim some useful space, but the directory it lists as the biggest user is one of my music directories, where nothing has been added since Christmas, so that's not what I'm looking for. > Ncurses equivalent is ncdu (http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/). > > Also, it may help to check your log file directories....I quote from > this thread from openSUSE Forums: > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-02/msg02348.html. > Though you may use a different flavor of Linux, this may be relevant > to your version also. > I run tmpwatch weekly, both on my user and root tmp directories, so they never get big. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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