ext3 journaling taking up HDD Space ?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Apr 17 00:23:31 UTC 2004
Tommy Reynolds wrote:
>Uttered "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin at fedex.com>, spake thus:
>
>
>
>>/dev/sda1 6.7G 6.6G 0 100% /
>>
>>This is what my space looks like. This is the / partition. I have 2
>>other servers running that are much busier, and one is a older ( a dog
>>as far as I'm concerned) however they are running ext2. They have both
>>been up and running for 100 days + I rebooted them lately - just for
>>fun. Neither one of them just ran out of space however. The /home and
>>the /var drives are partitioned off so that the website, ftp, and home
>>drives don't mess with the / space.
>>
>>
>
>EXT3 journals are of fixed size; that ain't the problem.
>
>Check _all_ the places where log files are kept, not just
>"/var/log/messages". For example, apache keeps logs in another
>place.
>
>Just for fun, do a:
>
> # ls -l /var/spool/mail
>
>to see if an account is receiving mail but not checking it.
>
>
Also, since the journal is fixed size, /something/ else is growing.
Running "du / > /tmp/du.log" will give a log of all files/directories
trees on the disk and the space used in each all the way to the end leaves.
If a single tree indicates a large space usage investigate the details
to find out where the space is actually used.
If this is a server it may be in /var/log/httpd, /var/log/sa or
something similar.
A while back I had a machine with a broken version of logrotate and that
would fill my system up with thousands of files as it brokenly attempted
to do its job.
>Cheers!
>
>
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