[CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

Thu Apr 7 03:49:12 UTC 2016
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

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.

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