Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:31:06 -0500 From: Cliff Addy <cliff@compucast.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space Message-ID: <4949375A.7070708@compucast.com> In-Reply-To: <283ACBF4-8227-4A24-9E17-80A17CA2A098@identry.com> References: <283ACBF4-8227-4A24-9E17-80A17CA2A098@identry.com>
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Use "df" to report disk usage. Sitting in /, for example, "df -sm bin" will tell you the disk usage in megs in the bin directory, "df -sm *" will do the same for each file/dir in / "man df" for the whole story Cliff John Almberg wrote: > Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is > probably a laughable situation to an experienced admin... > > I've got a smallish server that is suddenly out of disk space in the > '/' partition. > > Probably some log files have gotten out of hand. I am going to start > looking for the culprits by hand... basically inspecting sub > directories, but there must be a better way! > > Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the > problem is? > > Even better, is there a way to proactively monitor the file system, so > I can fix problems before I start getting 'out of disk space' errors? > > Any hints, much appreciated. > > -- John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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