[PLUG-JOBS] File system space troubles

[Austin Schutz]

# du -mx / | sort -n -k +1 | tail -20

-m: show in megs.
-x: only show the root filesystem.
sort by the numeric size of the first column,
show the last 20 (20 largest items on the filesystem).

Austin


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In an attempt to install hp printer software on my friend's Debian box I
> ran into an unexpected problem that I don't know how to solve.
>
> I'm seeing this messages when I try to use tab complete:
>
> "cat /etbash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on
> device
> bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device"
>
> and when I try to login as root to a directory in thunar file manager I
> get an error about not enough space to copy the user's xauthorization file.
>
> It's fairly obvious what the problem is:
>
> bikejunkie at penguin:/$ df -h
> Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail
> Use% Mounted on
> rootfs                                                  9.2G  9.2G     0
> 100% /
> udev                                                     10M     0   10M
> 0% /dev
> tmpfs                                                   803M  724K  803M
> 1% /run
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/edf54f42-ce8d-4a9d-be11-44e71f338f46  9.2G  9.2G     0
> 100% /
> tmpfs                                                   5.0M     0  5.0M
> 0% /run/lock
> tmpfs                                                   4.8G  1.4M  4.8G
> 1% /run/shm
> /dev/sda6                                               434G  208G  205G
> 51% /home
> pr
>
> However, the obstacle to solving this problem is that I can't seem to get
> a useful listing of current file space utilization from either Thunar nor
> command line so that I can determine what to move or delete.
>
> I found a few files in the /tmp directory that were a few hundred MBs.
>
> Is there a better gui tool or command that will provide a better break-out
> of files and their space usage?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice/recommendations.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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