[SOLVED] disk space being hogged!!!

[tqz]

Hello all

Suddenly my disk that contains everything but the home dirs and which is usually only approx 9% full is now 100 % full...

Any suggestions on how to find how this has happened? How can i find the largest files minus the mounted dirs which are on other disks?

Thanks in advance

t

[HROAdmin26]

Google: bash disk hogs

There are simple to advanced solutions.

A simple one:

du -s /* | sort -nr

Look over the dir's in the root and move down from there - repeating the commands needed. If /var is taking more space than expected:

du -s /var/* | sort -nr

And continue on...

[Irithori]

A better solution than iterating with du over and over is ncdu
NCurses Disk Usage

It
- iterates only ones (thus saving IO and time)
- sorts by size
- lets you naviagte back and forth through the directories
- you can even delete dirs within it

[tqz]

Sorted...i did something silly! Thanks for your help Irithori and HROAdmin26...