a monster stole my /
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Tue Apr 29 15:38:03 UTC 2008
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +1000, Hartleigh Burton wrote:
> Hiya!
>
> I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have found
> a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but I
> can't find what is taking up all the additional space. At best without
> destroying what I still do not understand I can manage to get / to
> about 101% capacity.
oI see you have used du. I usually do
cd /
du -sk *
Since the 'h switches between K, G, M, I find it a little harder
to eyeball than picking just one of K, M or G. I also find the -s
more useful in a general situation than -dn since it gives a
good general summary.
The one thing I can think of would be some file that has been rm-ed
but not released by some process. The space will still stay allocated
until the file is released by all processes. A reboot can help that.
If reboot doesn't free anything up, then you have some serious digging
to do. Your / file system is quite large and you have most of the
usually culprits moved somewhere else. So, you should not need
anywhere near that much disk for /.
Good luck,
////jerry
>
> To answer a couple of potential questions straight up, there is
> nothing in /root and /tmp is on a separate partition.
>
> intranet# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a 989M 986M -76M 108% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/da0s1e 989M 216K 910M 0% /tmp
> /dev/da0s1f 58G 4.8G 48G 9% /usr
> /dev/da0s1d 4.8G 2.2G 2.3G 49% /var
> /dev/da1p1 3.3T 682G 2.4T 22% /db
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev
>
> intranet# du -h -d1
> 2.0K ./.snap
> 1.5K ./dev
> 218K ./tmp
> 4.8G ./usr
> 2.2G ./var
> 1.7M ./etc
> 2.0K ./cdrom
> 2.0K ./dist
> 1.1M ./bin
> 71M ./boot
> 4.4M ./lib
> 360K ./libexec
> 2.0K ./media
> 512B ./net
> 2.0K ./proc
> 3.8M ./rescue
> 26K ./root
> 4.1M ./sbin
> 512B ./host
> 682G ./db
> 689G .
>
>
>
> If I move the old kernel/GENERIC files from /boot I can manage to get
> back to 101%, I really have no idea where the rest of the space has
> gone though. Is there any way to locate large files on a specific
> partition?
>
> I did have a problem not too long ago where my /db array did not mount
> and MySQL managed to recreate the default/sample database on /db/
> mysql, could this default database be somewhere else on / while the /
> db array problem was fixed?
>
> *scratches head*
>
>
>
>
>
> Hartz.
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