At 989195842s since epoch (05/06/01 20:37:22 -0400 UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I typed df just out of curiosity to see what my disk usage was up to and > was shocked to see that it had almost *tripled* from the last time I > checked it (just a few days ago) -- it's gone up from 11% to 27%.
What partition jumped? Do you keep everything (/usr /var /home /tmp) on one partition? If not, then which one jumped? /var keeps logfiles, which will get bigger without you doing anything. Also, a percentage is not very useful without knowing how big the parition is. On a small disk, a 16% increase could only be a few megabytes. On a large partition, it coulg be a few gigabytes. The distinction, obviously, is important. > I hardly know where to start looking into this. Any help or pointers would > be much appreciated. 'du' will show disk usage for a directory. For example: du -sm * Will list the contents of the current directory along with the sizes of all the files and subdirectories (the 'm' shows the sizes in MB; use 'k' for KB) If you use this command at the root of the parition that is growing, you can try to find where the big space hogs are. Again, it's hard to give specific advice since I don't know what parition is growing. Jason -- Jason Healy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] LogN Systems | http://www.logn.net/
