Topic: running out of disk space

[katumba]

Can someone point me to where I should start looking for what is taking up disk space?  250 gig drive. only 35 gigs free. I installed the disk usage contrib and all the users combined are only using 20 gigs. I tried flushing out squid and that didn't free up anything.  Where can I look? Thank you!

[Jáder]

The slow way:

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df -h --max-depth=1 /

Or you can change depth to 2
This will summarize the space on each dir and show you... go as deeper as needed.
It's slow... REALLY slow... but works... and just depends on you

[katumba]

Thank you for that.  This is what I get:

df: unrecognized option `--max-depth=1'

[katumba]

ah, it was the du command. got it.

So, I have 150gigs being used by /media.  In that folder are cdrom, floppy, and USB_BACKUP, usbdisk, usbdisk1 and usbdisk2.  I'm assuming that is the culprit.  ok to delete all that?

also have 15gigs being used in /mnt.  Which contains: bootstrap-console-backup  dar2  floppy  smb

[markleman]

/media is where Linux mounts removable devices like CDs and DVDs. Have you got a disk in the optical drive or a USB hard disk connected? 150G could easily be a CD-rom or external USB disk. I would not recommend deleting anything in /media.

Like wise /mnt is where other file systems get mounted, typically network shares, in your case possibly a windows share as you have /mnt/smb. Again I would not recommend deleting these.

keep looking..... and good luck

[Stefano]

ah, it was the du command. got it.

So, I have 150gigs being used by /media.  In that folder are cdrom, floppy, and USB_BACKUP, usbdisk, usbdisk1 and usbdisk2.  I'm assuming that is the culprit.  ok to delete all that?

also have 15gigs being used in /mnt.  Which contains: bootstrap-console-backup  dar2  floppy  smb

did you solve your issue?