Ray, You can find where the data is through the following command: du -h --max-depth=1 Start in the root (/) and follow the trail. Succes Best regards, Joost Waversveld Ray Leventhal wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> 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 >>> <snip> >> Do a search for coredump file (i.e. run updatedb && locate core.*) - >> they can often fill up the HDD very quicly if something coredumps. >> >> >> > > Thanks, Rudi...I hadn't thought of that. The results, however, weren't > overly helpful for this issue in this case. > > I had about 11M of core dumps from March in the samba/cores directory > > The big deal here is that the system is choking...any advice on finding > what's making it choke and/or relieving the strain on / would be > appreciated. > Again, my thanks, > -Ray > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Joost Waversveld