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acctman · 09-04-2004, 02:21 PM

is there a command that will show the directory on a server that is using the most HD space. there is about 30-40gigs used up somewhere on my server that is not apart of my websites.

Brujah · 09-04-2004, 02:23 PM

man find
http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles/21.html

man du
http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles/22.html

DatingGold · 09-04-2004, 02:25 PM

du

will take a bit to run

Linguist · 09-04-2004, 02:27 PM

du | sort -nr | head

off top of my head.. there's probably a better way to do it

acctman · 09-04-2004, 02:49 PM

thanks i ended up using the du command

cd /
du -sh *

i found out mysql has like 43gb of nmx-bin.001-146 files. i'm thinking its a backup of all the databases on the server everyday dating back to feb.

AndrewKanuck · 09-04-2004, 04:03 PM

du -ks `ls`

vending_machine · 09-04-2004, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by acctman
thanks i ended up using the du command

cd /
du -sh *

i found out mysql has like 43gb of nmx-bin.001-146 files. i'm thinking its a backup of all the databases on the server everyday dating back to feb.

Those are logs, either just general logs or replication logs. You can purge them:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/PU...STER_LOGS.html

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09-04-2004, 02:49 PM	#5
acctman Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,840	thanks i ended up using the du command cd / du -sh * i found out mysql has like 43gb of nmx-bin.001-146 files. i'm thinking its a backup of all the databases on the server everyday dating back to feb.