50 gig slash went from 25 gig to 50 gigs- full over night
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Sat Apr 22 20:55:55 UTC 2006
Jim Christiansen wrote:
> Hello Thomas - Thanks for looking at this. I hope I got your email
> right!
> -----------------------
> Or run as root:
>
> du -hs /*
>
> This will tell you how much space each directory is taking. I'm
> betting your /var directory is full of something.
> -------------------------
> This shows:
>
> 7.6M /bin
> 7.7M /boot
> 136K /dev
> 104M /etc
> 1.5M /gtypist-2.6.2-buildroot
> 39G /home
> 96K /k12ltsp-release-root
> 194M /lib
> 18M /lib64
> 16K /lost+found
> 8.0K /media
> 8.0K /misc
> 8.0K /mnt
> 0 /net
> 86G /old-slash
> 545M /opt
> 2.1G /proc
> 4.6M /root
> 23M /sbin
> 8.0K /selinux
> 20K /srv
> 0 /sys
> 16M /tftpboot
> 808K /tmp
> 5.7G /usr
> 16G /var
>
> /home and /old-slash are different partitions:
> [root at christiansens ~]# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 48G 48G 0 100% /
> tmpfs 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda3 96G 40G 52G 44% /home
> /dev/sdb1 143G 86G 50G 64% /old-slash
>
> So... Everything on /dev/sda1 should add up to something roughly 25
> gigs, not 48!!!
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks, Jim
>
I'm betting there is some process which is holding a file handle open
even though something has been deleted. Reboot and I bet you get the
free space back.
Thomas
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