Hard disk becoming full quickly; available space inconsistencies.
Hi
I have a server running Debian, with kernel 2.4.28-bf2.4
There is a single RAID 1 array of two 146GB SCSI hard disks partitioned as
/dev/sda1 (25G) (which is /)
and
/dev/sda3 (112G) (which is /home)
The server has only been up for a month, and over the last two weeks
the available disk space of /dev/sda1 is constantly decreasing. I'm
now nearly running out of space.
Currently "df –H" shows that /dev/sda1 has 22GB space used.
However "du –H" in the root directory shows that just 16GB is used.
The growth on /dev/sda3 has not increasing terribly – just expected growth.
I cannot find any especially large files on /dev/sda1 – and I've
deleted various large log files, and this only solves the problem
temporarily. Now the space is even getting slim before the log files
have a chance to fill again.
There are no suspicious processes shown in "ps –A"
Naturally fsck'ing the root partion will be my last resort, as I'd
sooner not take a busy public web server down.
/var/log/syslog does now show any references to "sda1" or "megaraid"
or any other hard disk related keywords. There is no sign of any error
reporting in other logs.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why my available space might be
rapidly shrinking?
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