Extreme disk usage since last day, its not the logs

January 8, 2015 1.5k views
colt0356
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colt0356

Well, yesterday the total of my disk usage was 24 GB only. Today its 174 gb.

I cleaned all the log files, everything is clean. Total disk usage of all the directories is only 5 GB but my system says its 174. whats up?

My system is Debian

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  • JonsJava January 8, 2015

    My advice: install ncdu:

    apt-get -y install ncdu

    Next, just run this:

    ncdu /

    It's a great tool to easily drill down to find the cause. You can arrow down/up or hit "enter" to drill down into a given folder.

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rascul January 8, 2015

Run the following (probably as root), when it completes then see /tmp/size.txt for a sorted list of the largest files and directories

du -a / | sort -n -r > /tmp/size.txt

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