Running out of disk space
hi! Im newbie in Linux 7.3, and Im encountering problem regarding our mail server.. we cannot receive mails. Ive check the disk space using df -h and here's the output:
filesystem size Used Avail% Use Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 2.0G 0 100% / /dev/hda2 981M 137M 794M 15% /home none 61M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 6.0G 1.7G 4.0G 30% /var What will I do?! Can u pls. help me? Should I delete files?! What files should i delete.. thanks, Ann |
First try clearing out /tmp
Then, begin uninstalling applications you don't need/use anymore. Finally, yes, get a larger HD and stick it in there. That or resize your /var to give more room to / To resize you should look for an application called parted on www.freshmeat.net Cool |
Well, it looks like your root dir ("/") is absolutely filled. Deffinately not a good thing, IMO, especially for a mail server. It looks like your logfiles ("/var") really isn't being used as much as you may have thought. Perhaps using a repartitioning utility to decrease that 6 GB partition for /var into perhaps 3 gigs. Put the rest into hda1 to help alieviate the problem.
What directory on /hda1 is using the most space? Edit: Ooooor as MasterC said :p |
Whats the main cause of this problem? I have tried to delete some log files.. Is there any way to resolve this problem aside partitioning the HD? By the way, our mail server dont have GUI.
Sorry If I have so many question?! Thanks! ann |
Have you worked out what is eating the space, its probably /tmp , but it would help you if you could find that out.
Im not an expert, but if it is the /tmp location that is causing the problem try re-partioning and putting /tmp on its own partition. If / gets too full all hell tends to break loose. My suggestion is as above, take 1gb of that /var space and make a /tmp partition. Then edit /etc/fstab to represent your new change. |
i revoked du- h ./tmp its only 44k.... (hu...hu..hu..) I dont know what eating up the space...
Is it posssible to swap the /var to /dev/hda1 coz it dont use lot of space.. and putting /var to /dev/hda5? How? If I partition the HD will it destroy some file? Help me Pls! THANKS! |
Type this command:
du -s /* | sort -rn You'll see some warning for the /proc directory and some others... don't worry about them. The output of that command will tell you what subdirectories are eating the most space. It will also be listed with the largest directory first. For the sake of being thorough, don't pay any attention to the /var or /home entries because they have their own partition. So, now that you can see which directory is using the most space, you can issue the command above again, but for that subdirectory. Let me give an example. Let's say after running the command, you got this output: Code:
# du -s /* | sort -rn du -s /usr/* | sort -rn Then that will tell you which directories in /usr are the biggest. Continue doing that until you find what files are eating the most space, and make a decision about whether to delete them. |
I am checking the disk space right now. but I encountered problem again when I restarted sendmail. There's an error:
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/incoming/E/D postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group: postdrop:/var/spool/postfix/maildrop Whats wrong? Thanks |
Can anyone help me?? PLEASE!! Our server can no longer receive and send mail...
THANKS! |
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Try invoking du -h on / and see what you get as your most bit hungry piece. You'll be getting a whole lot of info, so I'd probably pipe it and examine your files with less: du -h | less Or to a file: du -h > /home/hog And then read /home/hog with: less /home/hog HTH Cool |
Re: Running out of disk space
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For now, because of the lack of space completely, I'd say find a large package, uninstall it. Something non-vital, and good luck. This should be able to be found from within the du -h pipe above. Cool |
Ok.. I will try to uninstall KDE and GNOME, besides, im not using it... Hope it will work...
THANKS |
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You have X on there? On a mail-server box (assuming that's all you run on that) you should try to only run it from the console. That is, if you have limited room/resources. If you've got the INIAC in your room, feel free to host the www in it's entirety ;) If you are confortable enough to run linux (at least on this machine) without X, then I suggest taking off more than just KDE and Gnome (although, that will be a big help); take X out completely, and all related applications. However, if you are running this mail-server on a system where other tasks are being accomplished, such as web surfing (desktop use), then you will want to keep X on there, just get a much lighter environment, such as Fluxbox or Openbox. HTH Cool |
Yes. I am comfortable with that. It has no GUI. The server is only used for emails.
I think its working, however we were only able to free up more or less 2 MB of disk space. We ain't sure to uninstall other program. |
In your original post you said you were running Linux 7.3, I can only assume this is Redhat 7.3 You should be able to remove things like KDE by:
rpm -e kde And so on. They were most likely installed via RPM, and so this is going to be the best way to uninstall them. You should be gaining more than 2MB from removing these 2 HD vacuums! :) I'd give a look again in a few, it's possible that df is simply not reporting back the correct info yet. Cool |
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