Re: [LUG] Root room

["Michael Mortimore" <nospamformike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

or perhaps you'll find that usr and home are the biggest directories? :P

I presume you haven't been installing programs in this time.

try:
du /var/* | sort -g | tail -n 20

On 9/20/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:17:39 +0100
> "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 9/20/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > du * -s | grep sort -g
> > > >
> > > > this will show you a sorted list of files and sub directorys and there
> > > > size (biggest at the bottom)
> > > >
> > > I tried that but it complained about the -g option.
> > >
> >
> > yea thats cause i told you rubbish!
> >
> > I'm so use to piping someting into a grep that it just got typed!
> >
> > it should be
> >
> > du * -s | sort -g
> >
> > Sorry!
> >
>
> Ok, I did that on root and here is the result
>
> >
> du: `proc/6162/task': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6162/fd': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6289/task': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6289/fd': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6353/task': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6353/fd': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6462/task': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6462/fd': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6477/task': No such file or directory
> du: `proc/6477/fd': No such file or directory
> 0       sys
> 2.5M    opt
> 2.6M    dev
> 3.1M    boot
> 3.7M    root
> 3.8G    usr
> 4.9G    home
> 5.5M    bin
> 6.8M    sbin
> 8.0K    initrd
> 8.0K    mnt
> 16K     lost+found
> 34M     lib
> 52M     etc
> 156K    tmp
> 490M    var
> 514M    proc
> [root@localhost /]#
>
> The only big ones seem to be proc and var.
>
> Is that to be expected?
>
>
> Neil Winchurst
>
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