On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I recently encountered this and it turns out that my / partition was, >> indeed, full. At the last Clinic I added ~50GB of free space on the >> drive to /, making now a total of 84GB. And now it is happening again. >> Something in / has eaten the entire new space. >> >> Note that ~/ is on the same drive, but a different partition. According >> to Thunar the ~/ partition is only 64% used, 138GB of free space. >> The device is a 480GB SSD. Palimpsest shows both partitions and no >> unallocated space. >> >> I used Thunar to check Properties on everything in / and found nothing >> out of the ordinary. I need some command line tools to find the pig >> that is using all my space. Also I need to find out what is causing the >> pig to be so hungry. Suggestions? > > du -h --max-depth=1 /
You may also want to limit the recursion to that single filesystem: sudo du -maxd 1 / ... or you could descend the entire tree and see the top 10 storage hogs: sudo du -max | sort -rn | head That said, you could have a process that is spewing data to a file that has been deleted. But that's an edge case to tackle later. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
