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Old 04-30-2016, 09:02 AM   #1
gilbertmc
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Diskspace issue in the root directory


Hello everyone,

I have a diskspace issue.

doing df -H I get this:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_root
69G 68G 0 100% /

I tried to find some files to compress/delete but I could not find anything.

I would like to know if there is a way to know what directories are inside the /

I used already ls but this just provides the whole structure and I need something more precise.

Can I get some help please?

Thank you so much.
 
Old 04-30-2016, 11:14 AM   #2
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Run
Code:
du --max-depth=1 -x /
to see where the space is being used, then work your way down into whichever directory appears overly large, e.g.,
Code:
du --max-depth=1 -x /var
If it turns out that du does not see any excessive space being used, then you probably have some process that has a large deleted file held open and using up space on the disk. You can find those by running
Code:
lsof | grep '(deleted)' | sort -k7nr | less
The sort will put the largest files at the top of the list.

All of that will need to be done as root.

Last edited by rknichols; 04-30-2016 at 11:16 AM. Reason: add code tags
 
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