Ubuntu LTS server 10.04.03 is filling disk space
 

My boot disk with 140Gb disk space is filling all it's disk space since last week.
I do not know what is happening but I noticed this because mysql server didn't start up so I could not read my mails.
Than after searching the internet I found an issue where diskspace is the problem and indeed here too.
Yesterday I have removed a lot of space which was possible and I also removed old GTUB's and I had 40Gb free space.
But now this morning again when I did the command df it showed me 100% use so nothing available.
Even after a reboot it still stays on 100% USE so somehow some files have been created?
How can I find the files or directory which is causing this?

Hi,

Run the following command to check which directories are using up all your space:
Most likely something is generating a lot of log.

Kind regards,

Eric

Thanks for the help.

For me the trick was umount -a and then did the command #du -sh /*
This gave me an overview and I could see where the error was.
Somehow my external disk was not mounted anymore and the rsync command had made a local foldername on the boot disk where it copied the backup to.

So I have changed this backupscript and removed the folder on the boot disk.

regards,

Hi,

Glad you've found the problem and solution. Thanks for marking your thread solved. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric