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linuxandtsm

05-15-2012 08:24 AM

How to find what is filling up the space

Hi all,

There is an NFS share on linux box and it is getting filled very fast. It is filling hundreds of GBs everyday. How can i find what is filling up the space ?
thanks in advance!

business_kid

05-15-2012 09:06 AM

du -sh /path-to-device/*

Also
lsof |grep path-to-device

TobiSGD

05-15-2012 09:21 AM

I prefer ncdu for such tasks. It should be available for almost any distribution and is quite handy, since its interactivity really can (and does) speed up to find the culprit.

linuxandtsm

05-15-2012 09:48 AM

thanks business_kid and TobiSGD,

will "ncdu" work on CentOS5/RHEL5 ? because i can't see it there on the ncdu page link.

TobiSGD

05-15-2012 09:51 AM

There are packages for ncdu: http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/atom...86_64.rpm.html

linuxandtsm

05-15-2012 10:14 AM

thanks TobiSGD

but i got following error while trying to install ncdu

Code:

# yum install ncdu

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://www.atomicorp.com/mirrorlist/atomic/centos-5-i386 error was

[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')>

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: atomic. Please verify its path and try again

TobiSGD

05-15-2012 10:15 AM

Sorry, I am no CentOS user, can't help with that.

linuxandtsm

05-15-2012 10:24 AM

Hi TobiSGD,

sorry my bad, i tried to install 64bit rpm on 32 bit. i installed it now

Code:

# rpm -qa | egrep 'atomic|ncdu'

atomic-release-1.0-14.el5.art

ncdu-1.5-1.el5.art

and now HOW TO USE this tool ?

TobiSGD

05-15-2012 10:54 AM

Just type

Code:

ncdu /path/to/your/share

It will begin to scan the path you have given to it recursively and displays the files/folders sorted by size. Navigate with the cursor keys, delete highlighted files/folders with the d-key, if you want.
For more info type

Code:

man ncdu

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