On 12/3/18 10:48 am, Philip Rhoades wrote:
JD, Gordon, Robert,
On 2018-03-12 06:13, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 03/11/2018 01:48 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I started deleting GBs of stuff from:
/dev/sdb1 /backup
but df did not reduce from 95% so I looked more closely and found this weirdness:
# du -s -BG 20180216 43G 20180216
# du -s -BG 20180216/* 1G 20180216/naf_dirs 43G 20180216/phil 1G 20180216/root
# du -s -BG 20180216/phil/* 1G 20180216/phil/0 1G 20180216/phil/0_finance 1G 20180216/phil/0_naf 1G 20180216/phil/Maildir 1G 20180216/phil/txts 1G 20180216/phil/vimwiki
Where has ~37GB disappeared to? There are no files held open and I have successfully umounted and re-mounted the partition - what is going on?
That "du -s -BG 20180216/phil/*" is ignoring any "dot" files/directories under 20180216/phil .
It's better to leave out the "-s" option and use the "--max-depth" option to limit the depth of the display. du -BG --max-depth=1 20180216/phil
Damn, I should have thought of that - normally, outside of .config, there would not be much in my dot dirs - but I had been experimenting with cryptocurrency nodes . .
Thanks for the useful tips!
Regards,
P.
Just one question on this, is the scaling that the -BG screwing around with the results of du as shown below?
bash-4.4$ du -s -BG /home/steve 8G /home/steve
bash-4.4$ du -s -BG /home/steve/* 1G /home/steve/andrew 1G /home/steve/config 1G /home/steve/Desktop 1G /home/steve/Documents 1G /home/steve/Downloads 1G /home/steve/gtk.css 1G /home/steve/jxbrowser-browser.log 1G /home/steve/jxbrowser-chromium.log 1G /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log 1G /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.1 0G /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.1.lck 0G /home/steve/jxbrowser-ipc.log.lck 1G /home/steve/l10n 1G /home/steve/Music 1G /home/steve/NetBeansProjects 1G /home/steve/Pictures 1G /home/steve/Public 1G /home/steve/R 3G /home/steve/rpmbuild 1G /home/steve/Templates 1G /home/steve/Videos 1G /home/steve/workspace
du -s -BG /home/steve/workspace/* 1G /home/steve/workspace/basics.zip_expanded 1G /home/steve/workspace/jsf-blank.zip_expanded 1G /home/steve/workspace/jsffacletstutorial 1G /home/steve/workspace/libraries 1G /home/steve/workspace/RemoteSystemsTempFiles 1G /home/steve/workspace/Servers 1G /home/steve/workspace/test-app 1G /home/steve/workspace/whirlwind
regards,
Steve