In fact, here is how i am looking for large files:

[root at mail ~]# find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{
print $9 ": " $5 }'
/var/lib/rpm/Packages: 35M
/var/named/chroot/proc/kcore: 4.8G
/var/cache/yum/rpmforge/primary.xml.gz.sqlite: 22M
/var/www/
info.technicanow.com/metadot/sitedata/private/2290/spark_2_5_8.exe.zip: 27M
/var/log/btmp: 252M
/var/log/maillog: 32M
/proc/kcore: 4.8G
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:12:0d.0/resource0: 128M
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:00.0/resource0:
32M
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:00.0/0000:08:00.0/0000:09:00.0/resource0:
32M
/usr/lib/libgcj.so.7rh.0.0: 29M
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive: 53M
/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.7rh.0.0: 42M
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/icon-theme.cache: 25M
/usr/include/c++/4.1.1/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/stdc++.h.gch/O2g.gch: 31M
/usr/include/c++/4.1.1/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/stdc++.h.gch/O0g.gch: 31M
/usr/include/c++/3.4.6/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/stdc++.h.gch/O2g: 34M
/usr/include/c++/3.4.6/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/stdc++.h.gch/O0g: 34M
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/lib/rt.jar: 35M
/opt/openfire/jre/lib/rt.jar: 42M


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Chris Smith
<christophermsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I guess thats the odd part.  I've done all of that (i've had this happen
> before on other servers) but i can't find any files big enough to be a
> problem, or even a directory with a bunch of small files in it.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Chris Smith <christophermsmith at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> There are other symptoms, like users can't start a new session in the web
>> app it is running, as it is messing up MySQL..
>> It is reporting the space in df...
>>
>> [root at mail ~]# df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>                       130G  129G     0 100% /
>> /dev/sda1              99M   24M   71M  26% /boot
>> tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Where is it reporting zero available space? Maybe you have a partition
>>> for read only media such as a DVD and it's misreporting that as lacking
>>> space.
>>>
>>> Try `df -h` to get information about your mounted partitions.
>>>
>>> Chris Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a server reporting zero available HD space, and I believe it
>>>> because the website it isn't working right. However, I can't seem to find
>>>> any files that are huge or taking up this space.
>>>> Below is an output from du * in the root directory. I've also used find
>>>> in a variety of way to find any files bigger than 10meg or so and nothing
>>>> seems to be big enough to begin to take up the whole 130 gig drive.. i hope
>>>> someone has some ideas.. this server is in a  remote colo too btw
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> This is an output from du:
>>>>
>>>> [root at mail /]# du -sh *
>>>> 8.1M    bin
>>>> 19M    boot
>>>> 4.0K    data
>>>> 96K    dev
>>>> 59M    etc
>>>> 82M    home
>>>> 267M    lib
>>>> 21M    lib64
>>>> 16K    lost+found
>>>> 12K    media
>>>> 0    misc
>>>> 8.0K    mnt
>>>> 0    net
>>>> 322M    opt
>>>> 0    proc
>>>> 124M    root
>>>> 26M    sbin
>>>> 8.0K    selinux
>>>> 8.0K    srv
>>>> 0    sys
>>>> 20K    tmp
>>>> 3.2G    usr
>>>> 636M    var
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
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>> whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the
>> governed."
>>
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>>
>
>
>
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> whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the
> governed."
>
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>



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