[mythtv-users] Root partition on MythTV machine filling up

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Feb 7 13:32:45 UTC 2008


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:19:25PM -0500, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> A couple of guesses: your log files or the mail spool.
> 
> Try to track down where the data is all located.
> du -sk /* | sort -n

My personal favorite is

# du -ax . | sort -rn | less

from the root directory of the filesystem in question.  I do it so
often I made a script out of it. 

This has the advantage that the -x makes it not cross filesystem mount
boundaries, so it only shows you the files that are an issue.

But I too am betting it's in /var/log.  That's why I always make that
its own mount point.

Cheers,
-- jra
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