Hi,

I am facing a very peculiar problem. My server root partition kept on increasing and today its showing 100%.
I checked all my application but no application is making log in the root partition.

Below is the df result

[root@linux3 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
4.0G 3.9G 0 100% /
/dev/sda3 190M 15M 166M 8% /boot
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
4.0G 41M 3.7G 2% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
7.9G 2.6G 4.9G 35% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
4.0G 1.3G 2.6G 33% /var
/dev/sdb1 68G 17G 47G 27% /opt/opt1
/dev/sdc1 68G 2.4G 62G 4% /opt/opt2
/dev/sdd1 68G 147M 64G 1% /opt/opt3


Root directory ls command

[root@phoneylinux3 ~]# ls -ltrh
total 124K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.4K Apr 30 2006 install.log.syslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Apr 30 2006 install.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K Apr 30 2006 anaconda-ks.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5K Jun 28 01:34 JavaDaemonTest.java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8.6K Jul 11 00:40 javaDaemonTest.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Jul 25 01:42 \
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 394 Sep 8 19:06 JavaDaemonTest$1.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 Sep 13 12:33 db.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Sep 13 12:38 create_table.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 909 Dec 8 15:45 MyLogger.proprties
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5K Dec 8 15:45 Mis7886.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0K Dec 8 16:32 testing.txt
[root@phoneylinux3 ~]# pwd
/root
[root@phoneylinux3 ~]#


Can any body help me how to identify what might be the root cause for the above situation.

And how i can create space on the root partition.

Regards,
Anand

"du -s" until you find the hog(s)

PS:
4GB isn't really a whole heck of a lot of space to begin with, is it???

4GB isn't really a whole heck of a lot of space to begin with, is it???

i am not able to understand the above line.

Regards,
Anand

It looks like you are searching in "/root", when you should be searching in "/".

Run "du -sk" on directories in your "/" partition (excluding directories that are mapped to other partitions, like /var, /home, /tmp, /usr, ...).

According to your df output 4.0G 3.9G 0 100% / damn what is it your are download as root?
Ok try this
if you find the largest directory you can cd into it and try find the largest of the contents