I've had to go through this recently, and it's a little tedious. Anyone know of a tool that can list directories in order of size? (excluding subdir sizes obviously). If not then I guess I just made myself a little scripting project ;) although I am sure some people here can just rattle it off without thinking.
tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Damien [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:12 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: root file system > > > As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking > > very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most > > directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things > > in /var get big? > > > the easier way to narrow down this sort of thing is this: > > cd / > du -bsc * | sort -n > > you can then cd to each subdir whos size appears erroneous, and repeat > > cheers > > damien
