[plug] Disk Space

[I am the LinuxAlien]

~$ du -hcsx /
3.2G    /
3.2G    total

Until I removed /var/log/jabber/error.jog
It seems that some were between /var/log/ and /var/log/jabber there was an 
error in the file system or something as it was reporting that 
/var/log/jabber/ was 1.8G and the vdir -h inside /var/log/jabber was giving 
a total of around 300M as the error.log file was around 290M. Upon removing 
this file the file system using df -h revealed more disk space and du is 
giving better results that fitted with du.
Thanks for helping me track down my vanishing disk space so that I can now 
install more Packages!
Thanks
Tim


At 16:49 30/01/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>--
>  "I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out
>to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.
>It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more." - RF Scott

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