Here is the Current System Configuration for my Question.
OS: CentOS 6.3 x86_64
DE: Gnome2
Purpose: Dedicated Server.
CPU: 2x Dual-Core Xeon 3.60GHz
RAM: 12gb
HDD: 5x 500GB WD RE4 drives
system = 500GB (independent hdd)
/home = 500GB (independent hdd)
/NAS = 1.5TB (3x 500GB Raid 0)
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Recently i have just discovered a weird issue on my server.
I only noticed this yesterday when i tried to upload a 15kb text file to my website. When i received the message (Failed to upload: Out of disk space) i thought to my self thats impossible, after doing some troubleshooting, i found that my /home partition had 0 bytes free.
My /home partition is dedicated to one of those 500GB hard drives.
as root i "cd /home" then "du -sh *" with the output:
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[root@server ~]# cd /home
[root@server home]# du -sh *
483G jc61990
32K usr1
634M usr2
16K lost+found
1.6G usr3
1.8G usr4
604M usr5
18M usr6
5.2G usr7
[root@server home]#
my own personal user account seems to be the issue taking up almost all the space on my drive. So after going into my directory and then listing all files i saw
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-rw------- 1 jc61990 jc61990 499970249795 Nov 19 11:02 .xsession-errors
so now that i found the problem file, i wanted to see the cause: reading the last few lines of the file didnt really help, and i cant open the file in gedit, vi, or nano because of how large it is, so i used tail.
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[root@server jc61990]# tail -n 20 .xsession-errors
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
20/11/2012 12:08:05 PM Authentication deferred - ignoring client message
so this is where you guys come in, what does this error mean?
i deleted the 483GB error file yesterday, and this morning it was back up to 183GB, this file is increasing fast and its just the same error over and over.
would anyone here have any clue as to what is going on / a way to resolve this?
thanks
