[NTLUG:Discuss] huge file/directory size in ..
David Stanaway
david at stanaway.net
Sun Apr 1 23:52:13 CDT 2012
Also, do you have a bunch of unlinked open files (Like temp files) tied
up with some background processes?
lsof | grep $PWD
On 4/1/2012 11:50 PM, David Stanaway wrote:
> Looks like the parent directory has a lot of files/directories in it.
>
> ls -al .. | wc -l
>
> On 4/1/2012 7:43 PM, o k wrote:
>> All.
>>
>> Can any one let me know what is going on here?
>> It says there are 24344 files and the size is huge on .. directory,
>> but only see 2 files.
>> i know I a wrong sed command and creates a huge sed* files. I think i
>> deleted them.
>> How do I fix the problem?
>> thanks.
>>
>> [root at megan6 dd]# ls -al
>> total 24344
>> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 19:40 .
>> dr-xr-x---. 26 root root 24903680 Apr 1 12:07 ..
>> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 972 Apr 1 09:35 dd.orig
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Apr 1 19:40 dd.txt
>>
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