What's using my disk space?

oscarBravo

On my Debian server I have everything except /boot in one 4GB partition. That partition is 93% full, which is a little too much for comfort.

Is there an easy way to determine the total size of a particular directory and all its subdirs? What I mean is, can I quickly tell that (say) /var is using 2GB and /home 500MB, so /var is a bigger problem; then /var/cache has 1.5GB, so it's a bigger problem than /var/spool... you get the idea.

phaxx

du -sh /*

will produce this:

4.7M	/bin
7.3M	/boot
420K	/dev
15M	/etc
609M	/home
4.0K	/initrd
55M	/lib
16K	/lost+found
4.0K	/misc
17G	/mnt
139M	/opt
5.0K	/proc
648K	/root
12M	/sbin
6.7M	/tmp
2.5G	/usr
103M	/var

phaxx

Actually, I just remembered a cool utility I used on Windows. Just tried it under wine, and here's the results:

http://sleepygeek.org/~phaxx/spacemonger-linux/

You can get a copy of the spacemonger executable from there too. That version is free, I hear they're working on a new one that won't be though.

oscarBravo

Originally posted by phaxx
du -sh /*

will produce this:

# du -sh /*
2.9M    /bin
5.1M    /boot
4.0K    /cdrom
64K     /dev
7.4M    /etc
4.0K    /floppy
294M    /home
4.0K    /initrd
0       /initrd.img
40M     /lib
28K     /lost+found
4.0K    /mnt
130M    /proc
5.1M    /root
2.8M    /sbin
72K     /tmp
550M    /usr
2.5G    /var
0       /vmlinuz
0       /vmlinuz.old

# du -sh /var/*
1.3M    /var/backups
852M    /var/cache
140M    /var/lib
4.0K    /var/local
8.0K    /var/lock
17M     /var/log
1.5M    /var/mail
216K    /var/run
716M    /var/share
140M    /var/spool
20K     /var/tmp
682M    /var/www

Thanks a bunch - now I know where to start thinking about cleaning up. For a start, what the hell do I have in /var/www??

oscarBravo

Originally posted by phaxx
Actually, I just remembered a cool utility I used on Windows. Just tried it under wine, and here's the results:

That's pretty cool!

phaxx

Originally posted by oscarBravo
Thanks a bunch - now I know where to start thinking about cleaning up. For a start, what the hell do I have in /var/www??

Probably the Apache manual, and er.. maybe you dropped a cd image in there.

oscarBravo

Originally posted by phaxx
Probably the Apache manual, and er.. maybe you dropped a cd image in there.

You're psychic, dude: I put a Debian CD there months ago - completely forgot about it. Back to a more comfortable 77% now. Thanks again!

hamster

Hey that's an excellent visual tool! :eek:

po0k

As snaga said this morning on #boards.ie "<Snaga> does it make an excel sheet of the results?"

Maybe in v2.1.0

Cool tool phaxx

phaxx

Originally posted by oscarBravo
You're psychic, dude:

Nah, just root.

*grin*

oscarBravo

:eek: /oscarBravo frantically checks his firewall...!