[PLUG] Failed boot and no startx

[Cooper Stevenson]

Sean,

Use this command to figure out what is taking the most space in reverse
order by size:

  find / -exec du -h {} \; 2>/dev/null | sort -rn | less

This will take awhile. Substitute '/' with the directory that you wish
to search, '/var' for example.


-Cooper

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:26, Sean Dixon wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> I was actually a little off on the size.  It was only 4M rather than
> 4G.  Whoops!
> 
> The /tmp is empty of all unnecessary files (all but fonts). 
> 
> I still can't figure out what is taking so much space.  It appears that
> RH8 complete install is a 10G program.  That can't be the case....can
> it?  It is the only thing on this machine. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:43, Petcher, Danielx J wrote:
> > Speaking of Holy Cows, you should be very careful with that large .pfd file.
> > Pfd (short for "pferd," the German word for "horse") files contain the
> > entire essence of a digitized horse (highly compressed, of course). Deleting
> > this file could cause your computer to lose some of its horse-power.
> > 
> > On the other hand, it could be a dead horse, in which case there's no great
> > profit to be made in killing or even beating it.
> > 
> > Just thought you might want to know....
> > 
> > -djp
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sean Dixon [mailto:seanpdixon at yahoo.com] 
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:18 AM
> > > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > > Subject: RE: [PLUG] Failed boot and no startx
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can I rm all files in tmp without causing any problems?  
> > > There is all sorts of crude in there.  One file called 
> > > rhl-gsg-en-80.pfd is 4G alone
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org 
> > > [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On > Behalf Of Rich 
> > > Shepard
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:08 AM
> > > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > > Subject: RE: [PLUG] Failed boot and no startx
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Sean Dixon wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Holy cow!
> > > 
> > >   They make the best hamburgers.
> > > 
> > > > /dev/hda2	size=11G  	Used=11G  	Avail=0	Use=100%
> > > > 
> > > > How could I possibly use up 11G?
> > > 
> > >   Easy. Large temporary files. Now run (as root):
> > > 
> > > ls -l / | less
> > > 
> > > and you'll see what's taking all that space on the root filesystem.
> > > 
> > > Rich
> > > 
> > > Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> > > 
> > >                        Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
> > >             2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | 
> > > U.S.A.  + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) | 
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> > > 
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