[CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
Rudi Ahlers
rudiahlers at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 14:57:07 UTC 2008
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issue....I've a / partition which is
> full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this.
>
> I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The
> system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to the internet, serves as a local
> LAN server running stock stuff...sendmail, dovecot, apache..nothing strange
> or special going on.
>
> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would
> appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to
> where the space is being eaten up.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Ray
>
>
> My layout is:
>
> #df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 131G 130G 0 100% /
> /dev/sdc1 271G 156G 102G 61% /home
> /dev/sdd1 271G 4.5G 253G 2% /home/905
> /dev/sda1 99M 29M 66M 31% /boot
> tmpfs 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm
>
>
>
> # cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> LABEL=/home/905 /home/905 ext3 defaults 1 2
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
>
>
> # cat /etc/mtab
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/sdc1 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/sdd1 /home/905 ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
> sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
>
>
> _______________________________________________
Do a search for coredump file (i.e. run updatedb && locate core.*) -
they can often fill up the HDD very quicly if something coredumps.
--
Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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