UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone,

I think I've filled up one of the partitions on my drive. I suspect that one of the applications I've been running has been spitting out junk files to this partition - most of which can be deleted. The problem is that I have no idea how to go look at what's on that partition and remove it.

In particular, the command:
df -h
produces the output

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 5.8G 5.5G 0 100% /
none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 361G 68G 275G 20% /state/partition1
tmpfs 242M 5.4M 237M 3% /var/lib/ganglia/rrds
/state/partition1/home/workhorse
361G 68G 275G 20% /home/workhorse

As you can see, /dev/sda1 is full. Any advice on how I can find out what's filling up this partition?

(My apologies if this is a common/basic question. I tried to do a search, but I'm afraid I don't even know what to search for.)

Run the following command:

Code:

find / -xdev -type f -size +100000000c -print

This should print all files larger than 100MB in the / filesystem. Then you can see what these files are and decide to remove/truncate/compress them.

Thanks Blowtorch, this seems to have worked.