Somehow all my disk space keeps getting used

AbbZer0 · 02-23-2004, 01:30 PM

Please help. Somehow my disk space is being used up by something. I tried doing a DU to find out if there are any huge files, but it doesn't seem so. (if I am properly using the command anyways...)

On the "df" my available HD space keeps decreasing incrementally every time I run it. I can't figure out why this may be.

Has anybody run into this before? I am welcome to any suggestions, and will provide any information that can assist.

Thank you very much.

Clint Young

Tinkster · 02-23-2004, 01:32 PM

Hi ... and welcome to LQ

What's your partitioning scheme?
Copy and paste /etc/fstab, please.

Cheers,
Tink

AbbZer0 · 02-23-2004, 01:45 PM

Wow -- that sure is a quick response I have seen here. So thank you, I believe this is what you want. If not, I apologize.

Thanks!

[root@webserve etc]# more fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@webserve etc]# df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 3.4G 3.2G 156K 100% /
/dev/hda6 2.2G 260M 1.9G 12% /home
[root@webserve etc]#

Tinkster · 02-23-2004, 02:47 PM

Sometimes du doesn't report files properly ...

as root, try this one.

Code:

-
find / -printf "%k %p\n" | sort -g -k 1,1 | tail -n 15

That should spit out the 15 largest files on your system ...

Cheers,
Tink

AbbZer0 · 02-23-2004, 02:55 PM

Looks like we have our answer here:

[root@webserve etc]# find / -printf "%k %p\n" | sort -g -k 1,1 | tail -n 15
find: /mnt/floppy: Input/output error
find: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error
find: /proc/4050/fd/4: No such file or directory
13528 /usr/local/lib/libMagick.a
13528 /var/www/ImageMagick-5.5.7/magick/.libs/libMagick.a
13636 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/korean/batang.ttf
14764 /usr/lib/aspell/fr-60-only.rws
16052 /usr/lib/aspell/es.rws
16340 /usr/lib/aspell/da.rws
17220 /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.main.cz
17824 /usr/lib/aspell/sk.rws
24668 /usr/lib/aspell/ru.rws
24748 /var/lib/rpm/Packages
60636 /usr/lib/aspell/cs.rws
76592 /home/abbzer0/OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
224708 /var/log/kernel/info
224912 /var/log/messages
225156 /var/log/syslog
[root@webserve etc]#

I am betting that the log information is the culprit for eating up all the disk space. I am however still unsure for the reason this might be occuring. Any thoughts on this matter? Also, would I be safe in deleting those log files to free up those 700 or so megs of space?

Thanks again for all your assistance.

AbbZer0

Tinkster · 02-23-2004, 03:21 PM

Most systems would use logrotate these days ...
I haven't seen 220MB logs in a while.

Another good way of hunting down culprit's
would be using something like

Code:

du -m --max-depth=1 <dir in question> | sort -g -k 1,1

so you can locate the fattest directories.

What distro are you running, btw?

Cheers,
Tink

AbbZer0 · 02-23-2004, 04:29 PM

Running Mandrake 9.1 Prosuite. Thank you again for your help.

AbbZer0 · 02-23-2004, 04:32 PM

I wonder if this could have something to do with MySQL. I was attempting to make some new databases so perhaps that is to blame. I will post results when I find them.

AbbZer0 · 02-27-2004, 01:47 AM

Something is STILL eating up my HD space... Even though I now have several hundred megs free, every time I look at the space, it is a bit less.. Any ideas of what I might be able to look for? As stated, I suppose it *COULD* have something to do with MySQL, but am not sure.

Thanks,

AbbZer0