Browsing as root (and creating hidden cache files in /root) has been
known to fill up / drives.
du -s -k /* | sort -n
and work down through the directory structure.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, R. Stia wrote:
>
> Now, why would my partition jump from 40% to 100% full? What I can think
> of is this. Am using apt-get to upgrade my system constantly. Working
> very well up to this point. Those files are temporarily put in
> var/cache/apt/archives until they are executed and then removed.(these
> are the files I moved to give me space)
>
> What I did was to try and upgrade my lilo and kernel in preparation for
> an upgrade to SuSE 8.1. Got a message that it failed due to
> insufficient space in Var/cache/apt/archives. That is when I found out
> I could no longer boot as a user the next time I tried to log in.
>
> Have been following the other thread about "100% on a data drive...."
> and it seems that might have something to do with it????
>
> Anyway, I am now faced with a 99.2% full partition that should be only
> about 40%. What has happened?
>
> Bob S.
>
>
>
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