Trying to understand more of Linux and why our diskspace keeps running full with what. Little to none experience with Linux so bear with me
/dev/sda2 is mounted on / and this disk keeps running full
If I check a level deeper I can see
Now there is this 18GB on /
How can I see what is actually taking up this space? Folders like /etc /home /var I can check the content but I fail to see what files are directly on the /
All normal folder that would run full like cache or logs or /tmp are checked and emptied and still the disk is at 96% which I think is not normal.
Any other tips are welcome as well ofcourse.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT
Command ls -lst / gives the following result
I'm not sure what to make of this but does this mean this 'swap' thing takes up the majority of the space? Or can this be ignored.
swapon
to see). If it is your computer's swap space; that is a static file which will not change in size; it's size is probably a multiple of your RAM (1x, 1.5x or 2x).du
run indicating it could not read some things. This means you probably where not running as root, so there could be 10G of data your user just isn't allowed to see.