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Linux root partition full
10/15/07
Linux root partition full
Oh my... nothing puts a server down on its knees more than a root partition with 0% free space. Oh well, ok, maybe being dugg beats it. But still, when you have a full partition, you're in trouble...
First thing is to find what is using that much space. My best bet is to do this:
cd /
du -s *
You may also like du -sh * which will show human readable sizes.
Then you just need to cd into the largest dir and iterate... 
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Comment from: will trillich [Visitor] · http://faq.serensoft.com/
we do the same here, adding "sort -nr" to get the primary suspects up top:
then, as you say, we dive into the offending directories and lather, rinse, repeat as needed. :)
du -s * | sort -nr | headthen, as you say, we dive into the offending directories and lather, rinse, repeat as needed. :)
02/18/08 @ 05:29
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