[Wlug] Can't find files filling up disk

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:27:33PM -0500, Michael Zarozinski wrote:
> /dev/hda3             4.9G  4.2G  512M  90% /var                <<<<<<< 
> root at games [/]# du -sh *
> 322M    var

I would go to single user mode, unmount /var, and run a filesystem 
check on it.

/sbin/telinit 1
umount /var
/sbin/fsck -f /dev/hda3

You can also check for what is using the space on /var.  I use du -sk 
so that I can sort the result in kilobytes:

df -h /var
df -hi /var
du -sk /var/* | sort -n

The last one won't catch files that begin with a ., so check for large 
dot files:

ls -la /var
du -sk /var/.[!.]* | sort -n