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On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 20:39:54 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:26:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > > > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package |
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> > > > > sizes. * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how |
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> > > > > files are distributed on your disk. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > and don't forget that du is lying - a lot. |
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> > > |
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> > > No it doesn't, du is very exact. |
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> > |
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> > nope, it is lying. |
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> No it's not :-) |
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> Be prepared to find out stuff: |
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> > du -h /var |
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> > |
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> > 31G /var |
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> This is the total size of all files below /var, measured as actual |
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> allocatable disk space consumed, not the sum of the size of all files. |
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> > df -h |
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> > /dev/md2 18G 5,4G 13G 31% /var |
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> This is the *filesystem* mounted at /var, the data comes from it's |
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> superblock |
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> > as I said - lying ;) |
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> I say you have other filesystems mounted below /var somewhere, about 25G |
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> worth of stuff. Or, you have a 25G sparse file :-) |
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nope. I do have a 2gb tempfs mounted at /var/tmp/portage, but then I would get |
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20GB overall. Also the partition size is 18gb. So du is lying. Well, the fact, |
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that I am using a filesystem with compression, makes du lying even worse *fg*. |
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