[Voyage-linux] check/repair fs

[Gustin Johnson]

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Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion, when running 'du -c' from / I get an enormous
> list of files and then the bottom total is: '685472  total'
> 
I use "du -Pacmx --max-depth=1 . |sort -g"
This will force the output to be in MB, and then sort and total the
results.  I have an alias in my .bashrc for this as it is kinda
cumbersome to type every time.

> This is on a 2GB disk so it would seem that this 100% utilized disk space
> isn't right and perhaps indicates a corruption issue, would you concur?

Not really, it says that your disk is full.  There are a hundred
possible causes, and corruption is not the most likely (but still possible).

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean [mailto:knife at toaster.net] 
> Sent: 22 June 2009 21:59
> To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
> Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] check/repair fs
> 
> You can use the du command. It will tell you the size of all of the 
> files and directories in a directory.
> 
> Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
>> -->
>>
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> I've got a system which went down here, when getting it back up and 
>> running the disk usage is at 100% which seems really odd. I want to 
>> check for corruption but obviously can't do this as the partition is 
>> mounted. Is there any way to ensure a check/repair next time the 
>> system reboots before the partition is mounted?
>>
>> Otherwise, is there any good way to find what is eating all my disk 
>> space? I'm wondering is something is creating a huge log or db 
>> somewhere on the system which I'm not aware of, If I can track down 
>> the file that might help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rob
>>
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