[CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
Robert
kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 26 15:20:18 UTC 2008
Ray Leventhal 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
>
I'm working myself out of one those unhappy situations right now. The
way I always start is to pick some arbitrary value of file size, larger
than which there will (or should) be a very small number of files and then:
# find / -size +2G -print
...which will present me with a list of candidates for removal.
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