[mythtvnz] Problem with full disk

James Booth james at booths.net.nz
Mon Mar 23 04:51:55 GMT 2009


For everyones info, I tried reformatting the old disk and it is stuffed. When 
I first went hunting for big files I found that du only reported a total of 
about 41GB of files, when df was reporting that the 56GB partition was 100% 
full - that kind of told me that the disk was no longer kosha.

On Monday 23 March 2009 17:40:46 Jason Haar wrote:
> Hadley Rich wrote:
> > In this case it's quite likely mysql binlogs or something, but you can
> > only find out by looking.
>
> To find the largest files on a partition, I stick to
>
> du -x /partition > /tmp/du.log
> sort -n /tmp/du.log |tail -20
>
> That will show you the 20 largest files. I like doing it as a two-stage
> process as quite often you want to look at other bits...
>
> Jason
>
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