On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Kevin Grittner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Glen Brown wrote:
>
>> I am using Ubuntu 8LTS on both systems. How can tell where the
>> space is going?
>
> Maybe someone has a more sophisticated way, but I'd be poking around
> with "du -shx" requests against the contents of various directories
> during the run. Maybe run "vmstat 1" in another shell, piping the
> results to a file.
Also look at iotop. Pretty sure it'll work on an up to date ubuntu 8.04 LTS.