Hard drive mysteriously full

Submitted by support0 on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 13:37

How can I identify what file(s) are causing my disk to be at 100% usage?

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by andreychek on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 14:31

Well, there's a variety of ways to do that -- one would be to simply go into /, and run "du -sh *".

Then, head towards the directories that are using the most amount of space, and then do the same thing again.

You'll eventually reach the files/directories that are using a lot of space.

Submitted by support0 on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 14:59

That did it! Thank you!

I forgot I had done a big grep > output.txt

The output.txt was over 200GB! I feel dumb again ;-)