[plug] Disk Space

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:

> I am having some trouble with disk space so I was trying to find out where 
> it all was going. I then found some interesting things. How can /var use 
> more than is used total as shown by 'df'? How can / be shown as using 
> nearly double the actual disk space avalible?

I can answer the last bit. You are du-ing not just the / partition, but 
everything mounted on top of it. Notably, /proc.  Try "du -x /".

> If /var is using a large amount of disk space what can I remove to clear 
> some of it up?

Try "du -x /var | sort -rn | less " to see whts filling it. the 1.9G 
doesnt look right.


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