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Re: [LUG] Low diskspace on /

 



On 13 Aug 2014, at 17:19, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Simon.. that's what I did, the second part that is.  these are the top 
> listed (assuming in size order as below that do sem to get smaller):
> 
> Cerce ~ # du -x /|sort -rn|more
> 9231712    /
> 5205576    /usr
> 2181916    /usr/lib
> 1843864    /var
> 1783328    /usr/share
> 1431444    /lib
> 1313428    /lib/modules
> 1086380    /var/cache
> 979212    /var/cache/apt
> 898768    /var/cache/apt/archives
> 
> I think that means /usr is 5Gb?
> 
> Julian

It looks like you need to 

apt-get clean

Jay 

> 
> On 13/08/14 17:00, Simon Avery wrote:
>> There aren't that many off root in your setup that aren't listed, why not descend 
>> into each one and " du -h --max-depth=1 " ?
>> 
>> Or just run that off root - only shows a summary for each dir.
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 August 2014 16:47, stinga <stinga+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 13/08/14 16:38, Julian Hall wrote:
>>>> du -k <dir>|sort -rn|more 
>>>> 
>>> Thanks for that.. how do I tell it to /just/ list / and ignore all my mounted 
>>> drives? At the moment it's wasting time churning out data on all my other 
>>> partitions including my NAS box.  All I want to know is what directories on / 
>>> are eating all the space.
>> -x
>> 
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