SUMMARY / is suddenly almost full (plus another question)

Thanks to the many folks who responded. The general consensus was to go to
the / directory and do a du -sk *, and then do the same on any lower
directories that looked suspiciously large. 

Another suggestion was to do something along the lines of find / -xdev
-size +10000 which looks for files over a certain size within the
device. Since I have /var and /opt partitioned out I didn't want find
telling me about files on those partitions. -xdev fixed that.

In the end, I can't find what has grown so much so fast. Is there any
chance that there could be some kind of large file hanging around that
find or du wouldn't see?



Dave Lowenstein
Programmer/Analyst
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:34:20 -0400
From: Rick Fincher <rnf@tbird.com>
To: Dave Lowenstein <dlowenst@mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Re: / is suddenly almost full

Hi Dave,

You can use du (disk use).  You might want to check your /var directory.  If
it isn't a separate partition it can fill up / because all the logs, queued
print jobs, and mail are in subdirectories of  /var.

Also, if you add patches with the backout option (the default) it puts the
old files in /var.

Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Lowenstein" <dlowenst@mail.sdsu.edu>
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: / is suddenly almost full


> I have a newly installed solaris 8 sparc server. After the install, my
> 1.5gb / partition (which includes /usr) was at around 60% full. Now it's
> 96% full, and I'm trying to figure out what happened. I've installed some
> new software but none of it was on the / partition.
>
> What's the best way to figure out what's taking up so much space on / ?
>
> Dave Lowenstein
> Programmer/Analyst
> Instructional Technology Services
> San Diego State University
> (619)594-0270
> http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its
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