[ale] how do I view system logs / check disk space

[Jerald Sheets]

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My favorite (on systems that don't have well laid out filesystems...i.e. / and swap) is

du -a |sort -nr |less

Sure, it's in blocks, but it shows you the largest files in descending order of size.  I usually go after those in the top 10 and that generally handles my problem.

- --j




On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:56 PM, jwkite at gmail.com wrote:

> My favorite command for identifying which directories are causing space problems is:  du -h --max-depth=1 which shows the size of each directory in human readable form without the details. I also like du -- max-depth=1 | sort -n to show the directories from largest to smallest. 
> 
> I know most of the experts here may know these commands, but it took me years to find them and I hope it may help someone else.
> Josh Kite
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:40:33 
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] how do I view system logs / check disk space
> 
> There is the GNOME Log Viewer[1] that you could use. The logs you
> can't view are limited to root access. So you can view them if you use
> a privileged account.
> 
> There are two commands for checking disk space: `du` and `df`. `du`
> will tell you how much space a specific directory tree is using, and
> `df` will report the free space on all mounted file systems. If you
> want to find large files, you could do `find /some/directory -type f
> -size +20MB` to find all files larger than 20MB. KDirState[2] would
> allow you to explore the large files on your system in a graphical
> manner. Looks like Ubuntu has a GNOME version[3].
> 
> [1] -- http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-system-log/
> [2] -- http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
> [3] -- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Baobab
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Ron Frazier
> <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
>> I was trying to view some of the logs in /var/log with gedit.  I have
>> some questions.
>> 
>> Is there a gui based log viewer where I can pick the log from a list and
>> view it quickly?
>> 
>> There are some logs such as wtmp which gedit cannot edit.  Is there a
>> way to access those.
>> 
>> Also, what's the command to check how much disk space you're using and
>> how much each thing in a directory is using?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Ron
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
>> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
>> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>> 
>> Ron Frazier
>> 
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>> linuxdude AT c3energy.com
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> 
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