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Re: [LUG] Mint 15 falsely claims / is full

 

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Tom wrote:
But sda8 is to all intents and purposes full so do an analysis of it.

Indeed. (And it's not an issue with the number of inodes.)

Running

du /

gives you a list of all the files on the partition and its sizes in bytes. You can pipe that to "sort -n" to get a list of the biggest files.

A quick way to find all files whose size is measured in gigabytes is

du -h /|grep -E "G\s"

(I'd run the latter first to see if it gives you one single file that is the issue. And then the former.)

Note that both will also give the amount of disk space used by directories and their subdirectories. That's probably useful, but also something to be aware of.

Martijn.


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