[CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

Mon Apr 18 15:35:46 UTC 2016
Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:47:33PM +0800, Chandran Manikandan wrote:
> Hi Geleem,
> Please have a look below of my result.
> 
> For my system shows like below.
> df -h
> 
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2       909G  576G  287G  67% /
> tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1       3.9G  160M  3.5G   5% /boot
> /dev/sdb1       916G  382G  488G  44% /bkhdd
> 
> First hard disk /dev/sda
> Second hard disk /dev/sdb
> 
> The problem is in first hard disk show above size but my email box folders
> having below result.
> 
> du -hs /*

Do you have any dot (.XXX) directories or large files under / ?
These would not be measured by "du -hs /*".

> 8.0K    /backup
> 7.5M    /bin
> *382G    /bkhdd*
> 89M     /boot
> 4.0K    /cgroup
> 4.0K    /command
> 208K    /dev
> 79M     /etc
> *386G    /home*
> 4.0K    /isoqlog.domains
> 322M    /lib
> 20K     /lost+found
> 4.0K    /media
> 0       /misc
> 4.0K    /mnt
> 0       /net
> 64M     /root
> 14M     /sbin
> 4.0K    /selinux
> 4.0K    /service
> 4.0K    /srv
> 680K    /tmp
> 4.3G    /usr
> 1.9G    /var
> 
> Here
> 
> /bkhdd is mount in /dev/sdb
> 
> / is mount in /dev/sda
> 
> But the size is not match in /dev/sda
> 
> I am running Centos 6.5 32 bit with CLI Mode.
> How do i check the cache size in this mode.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:29 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 04/06/16 22:44, 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
> > >
> > ===>
> > please post results.
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > ===>
> > why do you believe that increase is related to gmailtoaster?
> >
> > > how do i find out and why suddenly showing this much of increasing the
> > size
> > > of hard disk.
> > >
> > ===>
> >
> > > Could anyone help me
> > >
> > ===>
> > have you at any time run kde?
> >
> > ria, i use kde and some time back, found that depending on how a file
> > or directory is deleted, deletion is saved in cache.
> >
> > is it possible that  gnome is doing same?
> >
> >
> > --
> > peace out.
> >
> > If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes...
> >  ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it!
> > -+-
> > in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
> >
> > CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7
> >
> > tc,hago.
> >
> > g
> > .
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> *Thanks,*
> *Manikandan.C*
> *System Administrator*
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