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

Thu Feb 24 17:10:23 EST 2011

Y'all just made my day.  These are the basic tasks I've been slogging
through the hard way on my overfilled Slackbox.  Thanks for the tips!

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:

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> My favorite (on systems that don't have well laid out filesystems...i.e. /
> and swap) is
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> du -a |sort -nr |less
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> 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.
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> - --j
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> On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:56 PM, jwkite at gmail.com wrote:
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> > 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
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> > -----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
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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> >>
> >> Ron Frazier
> >>
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> > --
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