I ha just installed knoppmyth R5A16 using an auto install. Everything went fine. I upgraded the kernel 2.6.12 because it supports my DVICO Plus card and the tiny USB DVB from digitalnow. I started to use mythweb to have a play and I started getting errors and wouldn't work. It reported failed to write to file xxxx (not enough space). I then did a df -k and found the root file system was 100% used.

I had a look to see if a log file was abnoramally large and couldn't find one. I eventually cleaned out the /usr/src directory and it free'd up abour 16% of disk space. Mythweb started working. About 15 mins later the error occured. I checked the root file system again an it was 100% utilised again.

Has anyone come across this before or can help me

cheer

dkw99

run in the root see what folder other than cache and myth ues lots of space then repeat in that dir till you find where all the space is being used. then you can use ls -lh to see what individual file is large.

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

Xsecrets

I generally use:

for this and if I just want to see one level:

Start your search in /var/log

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

this little piece:




does wonders my friend as well.

I modified my knoppmyth installation to have a KDE interface and after installing everything the way i wanted I ended up at 100% space used as well.

A quick apt-get clean and was down to only using 87%

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...you pervy Windows™ fancier!

I had a similar issue crop up last week - am trying to sort it out on the ivtv lists because my culprits were some mondo-large-o log files (/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/kernelsomethingorother), stemming from a suspected memory error in ivtv. Cleaned them up, and (knock on wood) it hasn't come back.

Great to learn those new 'du' commands, though, I just *KNEW* there had to be a way to do that in Linux...although I do miss Directory Opus file management

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-Steve