Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
Lisi wrote, on 09/21/11 19:47:
> 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
>
>
But the cleaning of the package cache only removed ~ 2.3 GB. And summing up the
above listed disk usage makes only appr. 10 GB.
So were do the other 20 GB come from?
I would like to see the output of
du -hx --max-depth=1 / | sort -h
--
Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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