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[William Palfreman]

Try this Mark:

[mark at hostname mark]$ du -h / | less

That gives you a list on screen showing you where you've put bulk on. 

-- 
W. Palfreman.

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Mark Preston wrote:

> Thanks for the replies from Alex Hudson, Mike Brodbelt, Nix, and Xander D
> Harkness. 
> 
> 
> After logging in as root I moved all the files from the 
> /tmp directory with
> cd /
> cd tmp
> mv  * /home/mark
> 
> 
> This managed to reduce the used figure 254989
> to 254325, but it is still 100% usage.
> However, when I did rmdir tmp
> I got the message 'tmp' directory not empty.
> Then I did ls -a
> which gave . .. .X11-unix
> I moved this file out and was then able to delete the tmp
> directory with rmdir.
> Then I remade the tmp directory with mkdir as an empty directory.
> 
> The usage is still 100% on /
> so I guess I'll have to find some other files to delete.
> 
> Logging in as root, if I type:- 
> cd /<enter>
> ls <enter>
>  I get :-
> bin   dev   home  lost+found  mnt  proc  sbin   usr
> boot  etc   lib      misc           opt   root   tmp    var
> 
> 


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