Fedora Users — Re: no space left?

Hi.

Change :

open DU,"du -sh * |" or die;

to :

open DU,"du -sh * .[^.]* |" or die;

This will also list the "hidden" files and directories.

This is simpler but may show you what you want :

du -x / | sort -n

If you have processes writing to a file that is large, try:

sudo /usr/sbin/lsof +D / | grep "REG\|TYPE" | sort -k 7n

It sounds like you have a corrupt file system. Boot up in single user
mode and force an fsck on the "/" partition. With any luck it will find
the problem. If none of this helps, backup your data and check for a
"root" kit, whether or not you find a root kit, reformat and reinstall.

Happy hunting.

Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:

Thanks. I've ran the script. Here is the result of folders in "/" partition:

    Dirs:
    4.0K    misc
    4.0K    initrd
    4.0K    opt
    4.0K    selinux
    12K     mnt
    12K     tmp
    16K     lost+found
    212K    root
    568K    dev
    5.0M    bin
    12M     sbin
    57M     etc
    76M     lib
    195M    var
    513M    proc
    3.0G    usr

There is nothing in the partition has a "G" size except the 3.0G "/usr"
Doesn't seem to have anything capable to fill up a 20G partition ......

Ben Steeves:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:56:26 +0800 (HKT), HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Had this issue once and found it too tedious to try and run through my whole fs with du. Since then, I keep a graphical util handy. Try eg filelight (http://methylblue.com/filelight/ ). That should instantaneously show you where your space went.


Share and enjoy (and no comments on the lazy programming -- I banged
this together quickly):

#!/usr/bin/perl

open DU,"du -sh * |" or die;
while (<DU>) {
  chomp;
  ($size, $file) = split /\s+/,$_,2;
  if ($size =~ /([0-9\.]+)([k|M|G])/) { $num = $1; $mod = $2; }
  else { $num = $size; $mod = 1; }
  if ($mod eq '1') { $num = $num * 1; }
  if ($mod eq 'k') { $num = $num * 1000; }
  if ($mod eq 'M') { $num = $num * 1000000; }
  if ($mod eq 'G') { $num = $num * 1000000000; }

  if (-d $file) { $dirs{"$num|$size|$file"} = 1; }
  else { $files{"$num|$size|$file"} = 1; }
}

close DU;

print "Files:\n";
foreach (sort {$a <=> $b} keys %files) {
  ($num, $size, $file) = split /\|/,$_,3;
  print "$size\t$file\n";
}
print "Dirs:\n";
foreach (sort {$a <=> $b} keys %dirs) {
  ($num, $size, $file) = split /\|/,$_,3;
  print "$size\t$file\n";
}


--
Guy Fraser
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