Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
Hi Lisi,
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote:
> > > And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit.
> >
> > Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI
> > workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, assuming
> > the problem is a hosed/misconfigured program. If the problem is the
> > result of an errant drag/drop the files causing the undue swelling could
> > be in any directory you had/have write access to.
> >
> > # du -s -h /var
> > # du -s -h /var/log
> > # du -s -h /var/cache
> > # du -s -h /var/tmp
> > # du -s -h /lost+found
> > # du -s -h /root
> > # du -s -h /tmp
> > # du -s -h /usr
>
> /var/cache and /usr are 6 G between them, so are certainly not
> small. /var/log is not very big at all. But that still doesn't explain the
> jump. Perhaps I have started doing something differently without realising
> it.
>
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var
> 2.9G /var
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log
> 320M /var/log
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache
> 2.3G /var/cache
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/tmp
> 43M /var/tmp
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /lost+found
> 16K /lost+found
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /root
> 3.4M /root
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /tmp
> 120K /tmp
> Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /usr
> 3.7G /usr
> Tux:/home/lisi#
For /var/cache: did you clean the package cache? "aptitude clean" might
help... (depending on your configuration it MIGHT be that you have many
old .deb-Archives in /var/cache/apt/archives)
So, if "du -s -h /var/cache/apt/archives" reports something large, this
might be the problem...
Axel
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