/ is 99% full-SOLVED

[Vivek Kumar]

Hi All,

Thanks for your input. I am working on it. Trying to find files and
directory which are big but removing the old kernel versions helped me a
lot (rpm -e kernel-2.4.21-4* etc). My / filesystem/partion is reduced to
63% full from 99% full and /boot is reduced to 28% from 85% full.

Thanks a lot...


Vivek

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:44, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > I am having problems with few filesystems (partions). Following
> > partiotions are 85 to 99 % full. I cannot expand the partition or add
> > space to it:
> >
> > /  99% full
> > /boot 85% full
> > /usr 90 % full
> >
> > I don't know where to look and what to delete. Can I reduce other
> > partitions and increase the size of above partiotion.
> 
> 
> First of all, have you rebooted?  If a process is writing to a file, and
> you delete the file while it is open, although the file will be
> inaccessible, it won't actually be deleted from the disk until the process
> closes it.  So if you were deleting log files that were actively being
> written to, they may still be there, and may be _growing_ until you kill
> the process that has it open (I think lsof can help you here).  Also,
> sometimes a good fsck can find space.  I know it always helps me :)
> 
> Jon