[NTLUG:Discuss] Growing file garden

[Paul Ingendorf]

Mandrake has had a problem like this before with errant logrotate files and
slocate issues.  Definatly check your filesystem.  I like to us the ol cd /;
du -sh * approach as well it can take a while but you can follow the tree
path like so

[root at demobox.wantek.net:~] [14:12:03]
# cd /
[root at demobox.wantek.net:/] [14:12:04]
# du -sh *
4.9M    bin
1.9M    boot
0       dev
14M     etc
1.2M    home
4.5K    initrd
20M     lib
4.1M    mnt
512     opt
0       proc
101M    root
4.6M    sbin
512     tmp
656M    usr
333M    var

Here we see there is a lot of thing in the /root dir that probably shouldn't
be there so we cd /root and repeate the du -sh * keep drilling down like
this until you find the directory that contains all the extras.

FYI this is a Mandrake 8.1 base install but your millage may vary as this
install originaly took up around 700MB.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of falconjetflyer at netscape.net
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:34 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Growing file garden


I installed Mandrake 8.1 last Feb and it used 1.7 gig of my 9.5 gig
partition..    Now it has grown to almost 7 gig and I havent installed that
many new programs.    Is there any way to find out where the growth is and
control it.   I was hoping 10 gig would be enough for a long while.