On Thursday 05 March 2009 08:50:39 Martin (KDE) wrote: > Anne Wilson schrieb: > > 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 > > hm, whats about running 'du -s .* * | sort -n' in your home directory? > Ah yes - there it is: 20G .xsession-errors and it's full of strigi messages ok - I tailed that into a new .xsession-errors and deleted (not moved) the old file. df doesn't show the space reclaimed, though. Log out - no that didn't free it up. Reboot - yes! I now have 20GB free in /home. Thanks everyone 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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