From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 14:44:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14248 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bloke.statsci.com (bloke.statsci.com [206.63.206.184]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14240 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bloke.statsci.com [206.63.206.184] with smtp by bloke.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wHcL0-000QdNC; Wed, 16 Apr 97 14:33 PDT Message-Id: To: me cc: The Devil Himself , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: HD is full w/o X References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:54:19 -0800." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:33:57 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk me wrote: > The HD sure seemed to fill up fast though. I must have clicked on > something that I am not aware of. Well, you could start doing some poking around looking for large files or directories. Assuming you don't have to worry about commands wandering off to network drives, you could do some things like this: du -k / | sort -rn to find directories with lots of content under them. Or like this: find / -size +500000 -ls (does FreeBSD have a '-ls' switch for find? If not use find / -size +500000 -print | xargs ls -ld ) to find files over 500000 bytes (I think that's the default unit) in size. And see if there's any hints in the names turned up? Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org