Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:32:18 -0700 From: "Sean J. Countryman" <sean@rackoperations.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <dave@whatsthebigidea.com> Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) Message-ID: <EOELLBCOGJPNEBBJEKDKIECIFAAA.sean@rackoperations.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOEEAFEAAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net>
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from the root directory ("/") run: "du -s -h *" and post the results. That
will tell us who the offendor is. That will show the disk usage "du" for
each of the directories in the / directory. If you wish to do a bit more
detective work, go into the largest directory and rerun "du -s -h *" on it
to find which subdirectory in that directory is oversized. In this manner
of drilling down, you can discover who the big offender is and then we can
figure out a good course of action.
I've seen this a bunch working tech support (for a large internet hosting
company :-) Everytime I drill down to find the problem, it turns out to be
something like an out of control log file, a grossly large mysql database,
or something similar.
Let me know if you need anything else
Sean Countryman
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David
Radovanovic
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:25 AM
To: Stephen Hovey
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up)
Am I backing up the /backup files? Should I comment out the line:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/ in the script? Maybe I
don't understand FreeBSD's filesystem though you can see that /backup is a
separate 20 gig drive. Thanks for your time :)
David Radovanovic
WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc.
-- Bright ideas for the Web!
249 Partition Street
Saugerties, New York 12477
(845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880
http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com
[-----Original Message-----
[From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:shovey@buffnet.net]
[Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:15 PM
[To: David Radovanovic
[Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up)
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[Your root partitions and your /backup are the same - so your backing up to
[overflowing.
[
[On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Radovanovic wrote:
[
[> Hello,
[> Searched everywhere which lead me to a prior posting about a similar
[> problem. My file system is filling up again, but in different places. I
[> initiated a rscync script that runs via cron which coincidently ran just
[> before my system filling up. I'm sure the answer is obvious to anyone but
[> myself. Any help would help divert my disaster. Thanks. My system:
[>
[> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
[> /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127118 -8446 107% /
[> /dev/ad0s1f 257998 118 237242 0% /tmp
[> /dev/ad0s1g 9092908 2060994 6304482 25% /usr
[> /dev/ad0s1e 257998 83548 153812 35% /var
[> /dev/ad2s1a 128990 2 118670 0% /backup
[> /dev/ad2s1f 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp
[> /dev/ad2s1g 18028798 2083266 14503230 13% /backupusr
[> /dev/ad2s1e 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp
[> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
[>
[> The script in question:
[>
[> #!/bin/sh
[>
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude=/run/ /var/
[/backupvar/
[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats /usr/ /backupusr/
[>
[> Thanks again for any help.
[>
[>
[> David Radovanovic
[> WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc.
[> -- Bright ideas for the Web!
[> 249 Partition Street
[> Saugerties, New York 12477
[> (845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880
[> http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com
[>
[>
[> [-----Original Message-----
[> [From: David Radovanovic [mailto:david.radovanovic@verizon.net]
[> [Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:57 AM
[> [To: Giorgos Keramidas; dave@whatsthebigidea.com
[> [Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[> [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up)
[> [
[> [
[> [If I'm reading this right the most suspictious culprit in /dev:
[> [
[> [-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 68960256 Feb 9 04:04 st0
[> [
[> [Any ideas?
[> [
[> [As far as CPAN is concerned, should I delete the files or
[create a symlink
[> [like you, to another partition with more space?
[> [
[> [Thanks for your time, I appreciate it :)
[> [
[> [
[> [David Radovanovic
[> [WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc.
[> [-- Bright ideas for the Web!
[> [249 Partition Street
[> [Saugerties, New York 12477
[> [(845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880
[> [http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com
[> [
[> [
[> [[-----Original Message-----
[> [[From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr]
[> [[Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:22 AM
[> [[To: dave@whatsthebigidea.com
[> [[Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[> [[Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up)
[> [[
[> [[
[> [[Please don't remove the Cc: of the list when replying. I might not
[> [[know the answer, or be too busy to read mail. If you Cc: the list
[> [[too, someone else will have a change to reply too. Probably faster
[> [[than me.
[> [[
[> [[On 2003-02-13 07:19, David Radovanovic
[> [[<david.radovanovic@verizon.net> wrote:
[> [[> [Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] wrote:
[> [[> [
[> [[> [Start with:
[> [[> [
[> [[> [ rsc-web1# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20
[> [[> [
[> [[> [This will print the top-20 space consumers of your / filesystem.
[> [[> [What's the output of this command on your system?
[> [[>
[> [[> rsc-web1# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20
[> [[> 120903 /
[> [[> 67460 /dev
[> [[
[> [[This looks odd. Half of your / space is in /dev! Look in /dev with
[> [[`ls -l' and see which part of /dev takes up so much space.
[> [[
[> [[> 18464 /root
[> [[> 17988 /root/.cpan
[> [[
[> [[CPAN crap. This is why I don't use cpan at home, and if I absolutely
[> [[have to use it, I symlink /root/.cpan -> /home/giorgos/.cpan :-(
[> [[
[> [[> 12228 /sbin
[> [[> 10944 /root/.cpan/build
[> [[> 5480 /modules.old
[> [[> 5480 /modules
[> [[> 4198 /root/.cpan/sources
[> [[> 4094 /bin
[> [[> 3446 /root/.cpan/sources/authors
[> [[> 3328 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id
[> [[> 2514 /root/.cpan/build/DBI-1.30
[> [[> 2176 /stand
[> [[> 1256 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J
[> [[> 1246 /root/.cpan/build/DBI-1.30/blib
[> [[> 1232 /etc
[> [[> 1134 /root/.cpan/build/Class-MakeMethods-1.005
[> [[> 966 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JC
[> [[> 964 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JC/JCRISTY
[> [[
[> [
[> [
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