Re: Filled up the filesystem. How?

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 06/08/05

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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:17:39 -0400

    On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:58, Dotan Cohen wrote:

    > I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm
    > thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this
    > computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last
    > 2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions:
    >
    > 1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up
    > that quickly?
    > 2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But
    > how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by
    > date? I think the solution lies in that route.

    A problem I saw a few years ago was an admin tried to run a backup but
    mistyped the storage device. He filled up the file system with a huge
    file under /dev/mto.

    Check out the man page for the find command. It has a large number of
    options to find files.
      

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