Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

On 06/04/16 11:44 PM, Chandran Manikandan wrote:

Hi All,

I have running Centos 6.5 32 bit machine. This machine is running qmailtoaster packages and mailbox size is 385 GB.

if i run the df -h command it show 385 GB out of 1TB

I have run the same command today suddenly shows 576 GB out of 1 TB.

I didn't update any bulk file and mail transaction is not very high.

How do i check this issue and fix it.

how do i find out and why suddenly showing this much of increasing the size of hard disk.

Could anyone help me

Start with 'du -hs /'. If one of the directories is bigger than expected, re-run in that directory. Repeat until you find the unexpectedly large directory.