Re: [BackupPC-users] [backuppc] Can't find big compressed file

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

 On 10/16/2010 11:39 AM, Wayne Walker wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:15:35AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> <snip>
>> would have had a chance to change it.  Anyway, one way to find where space is 
>> being consumed  is to go through the filesystem starting at /, doing 'du -s *', 
>> noting the space used by each subdirectory listed, cd'ing into a large one, and 
>> repeating the process until you find where the files are.
> du -a / | sort -n > /root/du-a.sorted

and then go get lunch...  :)

> is my favorite way to do what Les described above, but it 1 swoop.  Look
> at the bottom of the file.  It should be easy to find.

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Bowie