Re: Drive Suddenly and Unexpectedly Full Problem

From: wbarwell (wbarwell_at_mylinuxisp.com)
Date: 10/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:14:20 -0500

houghi wrote:

> ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.suse.]
> Paul Clay wrote:
>> I left my computer on last night with nothing but Opera 8.x
>> running. Woke up this morning and my Linux partition (which
>> when I went to bed
>> had 10 gigs free) was full. The computer is connected to the
>> internet thru a wireless (wpa encrypted) connection to a
>> router and a cable modem; maybe I got hacked.
>>
>> Anyhow, I guess I need to boot from a rescue disk and remove
>> some files
>> from the Linux partition so I can boot from the harddrive.
>> Any suggestions on what file(s) might be the culprit(s)
>> needing deleting?
>> Or how to easily locate them? I thought I might scan the root
>> directory and subdirectories to look for the biggest files on
>> the system (though maybe my computer's problem is that the
>> harddrive got populated with lots of little files).
>>
>> Any helpful suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
> First, there is no reason to reboot. Go to [CTRL][ALT][F1], log
> in as root and type `init 3`. Next do `cd /` and then `du
> --max-depth=1`. Go into each directory.
>
> Most likely however opera download some images (rotating ads
> e.g.) and it should be already solved.
>

With Opera 8, ads are no longer used. 

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