/ out of space - what to do?

[Anthony J Placilla]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 10:54 -0600, Syl wrote:
> I am running FC2 and I have been keeping my updates current. Recently, I ran
> out of space on / and I can no longer do any updates. I have checked
> /var/log files, etc and everything appears to be in order. Here is a df of
> my system
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb2              4031560   3764916     61844  99% /
> /dev/hdb1                99043     24529     69400  27% /boot
> /dev/hdb6             20181400   8096684  11059532  43% /data
> /dev/hdb5              1007960     61404    895352   7% /home
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> thanks
> Syl
> 

take a look to see if something big jumps out at you:

find / -xdev -size +2048k > /tmp/bigstuff.txt

less /tmp/bigstuff.txt

that'll show files over 2 meg & you can remove as you see fit. Adjust
the value as you need.

Also edit /etc/logrotate.conf & uncomment the compress option.
Compressing logs is a very good way to optimize the usage in /var/log/

Be aware that you will need to manually prune out some logfiles due to
changes in extensions.


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Tony Placilla, RHCT
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