CentOS - Apr 2016 - Suddenly increased my hard disk

Hi Digimer,

Should i need to run above command in home directory or root.
Could you help me.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
> On 06/04/16 11:44 PM, Chandran Manikandan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have running Centos 6.5 32 bit machine.
> > This machine is running qmailtoaster packages and mailbox size is 385
GB.
> >
> > if i run the df -h command it show 385 GB out of 1TB
> >
> > I have run the same command today suddenly shows 576 GB out of 1 TB.
> >
> > I didn't update any bulk file and mail transaction is not very
high.
> >
> > How do i check this issue and fix it.
> >
> > how do i find out and why suddenly showing this much of increasing the
> size
> > of hard disk.
> >
> > Could anyone help me
> >
>
> Start with 'du -hs /'. If one of the directories is bigger than
> expected, re-run in that directory. Repeat until you find the
> unexpectedly large directory.
>
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 12:08:45 +0800
Chandran Manikandan wrote:
> Should i need to run above command in home directory or root.
The command that he gave you will work from any directory.  The / means start
from the root directory so where you are when you run it is irrelevant.

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On 4/6/2016 9:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 12:08:45 +0800
> Chandran Manikandan wrote:
>
>> >Should i need to run above command in home directory or root.
> The command that he gave you will work from any directory.  The / means
start from the root directory so where you are when you run it is irrelevant.

howevver if he doesn't run it as the root user, it won't be able to 
calculate space in directories the current user can't access.

if you are running X-Windows, there's a nifty utility KDirStat that 
scans the disk tallying space, then gives you an interactive graphical 
view of usage.   I believe you can install it from epel as package k4dirstat





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