• Something is eating my up home partition, fast.
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I just got a notice that I only have 288 MBs left on my home partition. Oh shit, what do I do? Five minutes ago I had 2 GBs and all I've been doing is some lite browsing. How can I find out what's eating up my free space? Also, things are going to start crashing soon so I need HALP NOW!
Virus (Not Likely, linux...) Program running: Do you have a backup program or something in the background? Webpage: (Not Likely, ActiveX not on linux) Giant Monster (Likely, it's eating your home)
how about some logs
^this. But logs wouldn't be stored in /home. Are you sure it's /home? You could open terminal and run "find /home -size +100k". That'll list all files over 100kb in home and above. Also "du -sk /home/<username>/*" will show the size of directories and you could keep going into the biggest directory until you find where the large files are. Try running "cd /var/log" followed by "sudo rm *" then enter your password. If that fixes the problem then it was large logs.
I just remembered something posted here a while back. Have you run anything in Wine lately? Occasionally a program will act up in Wine, refuse to close properly, and fill up your log files with errors
Check your .xsession-errors file. I've had programs running in wine spew out so many errors that I filled up 7GB in about an hour.
I'm guessing porn You dirty boy
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;25914867]I'm guessing porn You dirty boy[/QUOTE] Streaming FTW.
Use the automated cleaning tool included in every distribution. rm -rf /home/$USER
[QUOTE=nikomo;25946843]Use the automated cleaning tool included in every distribution. rm -rf /home/$USER[/QUOTE] Or how about just $HOME? There's no guarantee your homedir is /home/$USER.
I forgot about $HOME
how about just ~/*
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