Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:46:27 Axel Freyn wrote:
> 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...
:-)
Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache
37M /var/cache
Tux:/home/lisi#
Thank you!
Lisi
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