[sclug] Out of disk space

[Andy Smith]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:52:43PM -0000, Stuart Major wrote:
> I am trying login to gdm, and get the message 'no disk space'.  I am
> fairly sure this has to do with me setting up my back up incorrectly.  I
> have used df -a to check and sure enough my / is full.  I have tried
> deleting files and directories from the failsafe command line login but
> this seems to make no difference.

sudo du -xk / | sort -rn | less

should show you where all the space has gone, and let you know what
is best to delete.

Cheers,
Andy
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