[PLUG-JOBS] File system space troubles

[Carlos Hanson]

You could also use a linux distro that runs from CD and mount file systems from that to deal with them. 

Carlos Hanson

On Jul 2, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Austin Schutz <austindschutz at gmail.com> wrote:

> # 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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