On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:58, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm > thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this > computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last > 2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions: > > 1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up > that quickly? > 2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But > how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by > date? I think the solution lies in that route. A problem I saw a few years ago was an admin tried to run a backup but mistyped the storage device. He filled up the file system with a huge file under /dev/mto. Check out the man page for the find command. It has a large number of options to find files. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Pascal: A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it. -- Datamation, January 15, 1984
