John Foster wrote: > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have > been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a > disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of my Linux > systems. I checked and sure enough the disk is showing 100% full. I > moved a bunch of old archives (about 7%) off it and left it sit for a > day. When I came back it was completely full again. Any ideas on how to > locate the problem. I have NO Clue.
this will help you find where the large stuff is du -k / | sort -n you'll have on stdout a list of all the directories in your system with their sub-tree size, sorted by growing sizes. this often helped me a lot! it will take some time, and you'll maybe need some free disk space for sort temp files. hope it helps pietro.
