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