William Warren wrote: > aha..using that tip i found a huge file. It turns out he had turned on > some kind of bandwidth monitoring w/o turning on log rotation..:) I > have killed the logging..<G> Thanks for the tip. du -h --max-depth=1 is usually what I use. > > > Jim Wildman wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, William Warren wrote: >> >>> A friend's machine just had his / partition goto zero percent free. >>> This is an ext3 partition. Not an hour ago he had over 5 gigs free >>> on an 8 gig partition. Any ideas where to look? The logs don't show >>> anything unusual. >> >> find / -size +10M | xargs ls -l > big.files >> >> Adjust as needed. start from / to catch log files, etc in the >> 'wrong' place. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE >> jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com >> "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best >> state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." >> Thomas Paine >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.