[SunHELP] capacity of filesystem /

Jeremy RJ Towers jeremytowers at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Sep 20 15:51:41 CDT 2002


try  du -ka /dev

check for large file  in /dev/rmt. A common error is leaving out the 
last / in /dev/rmt/0 when using tar or ufsdump, resulting in a large 
file called /de/rmt0

HTH

Jeremy

Wim wrote:

> Sizheng Zhu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The capacity of my filesystem /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (mounted on / ) is up 
>> to 92%
>> now. Even I empty all the log and messages files and wtmp/wtmpx files in
>> /var/adm, the capacity still remains high (88%). But it was once 
>> reduced to
>> 50%. What else could cause the increase of the capacity ?
>>
> Try: du -ad / | sort -nr
>
> this shows you the disk usage, sorted on filesize...
>
>>
>> Thanks for suggestion.
>>
>> S. Zhu
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> Cheers!
>
> Wim
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