Space is being consumed too fast? Find where!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 2010

[ Thanks to Edmundo
for this link. ]

“You’ve found hat some process (don’t know which) is
eating up too much space too fast in one of your partitions and
don’t know where? Just yesterday I found a simple way to figure it
out.

“Suppose you want to check the partition where you have /home
(which is in a separate partition from /, right?) where space is
been eaten up too fast.

“Run this simple command:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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