50 gig slash went from 25 gig to 50 gigs- full over night

Jim Christiansen christiansen_j at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 22 21:36:22 UTC 2006


Thanks Everyone,

That was it.  Now I'm at:
[root at christiansens ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              48G   22G   23G  49% /
tmpfs                1004M     0 1004M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3              96G   40G   52G  44% /home
/dev/sdb1             143G   64G   73G  47% /Music-rsync

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From: Louis Lagendijk <louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl>
To: jim at linux.ca, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 50 gig slash went from 25 gig to 50 gigs- full over night
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:18:37 +0200

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:25 -0600, Jim Christiansen wrote:
 > Hello,  My server system has gone from its slash drive being  50% full to
 > 100% over night-
 >
 > [root at christiansens ~]# df -h
 > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 > /dev/sda1              48G   48G     0 100% /
 >
 > I've looked at the size of every directory in slash and they all add up 
to
 > about 25 gigs or so...
 > /home is on another partition.
 >
 > Where did all of the space go to in /dev/sda1??
 >
 > I did rename a mount point in fstab to a new name and made a dir in slash 
to
 > mount it to but I'm sure that this didn't have anything to do with my
 > current trouble.  The system did restart several times since the rename 
to
 > the new mount point with out any issure...  Then this morning...  slash 
is
 > 100% full.
 >
 > I run this as an ltsp server based on FC5 and none of my clients will 
boot
 > with slash being 100% full.
 >
 > Ideas??
 >
 > Thanks,  Jim
 >
 >
try the following:
umount /oldslash
df /oldslash

as you mounted a separate filesystem there, a the old directory there is
invisible, but may still contain a lot of data.....





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