On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, nate wrote: > Oliver Fuchs said: > > Hi all, > > as mentioned I tried du to get information about my lost free space > > (better than lost in space) ... I was kind of shocked when I saw that > > /var/lib/ got 1.2G ... it is very huge ... o.k. my /usr/ directory is 824M > > ... but I still think it is too big and there are too many packages on my > > box. Are there any good tools except deborphan an debfoster to delete or > > control my huge amount of packages? > > try finding out exactly what is using the space > > find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -s -h > (if you see anything unusual, go into that dir and do the same > command, you could try doing du on all the directories but to me > that makes it harder to read) > > one of my systems has a TON of packages(552) and yet /var/lib > is only 60MB(by comparison my /usr is 972MB) > > perhaps its not even a package file(s) that are taking all the space.
Hi Nate, after the first shock-wave has gone I found out what caused my disk-space to be gone up in smoke: /var/lib/htdig with 1.2G Thanx for showing the direction, Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
