By 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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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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