Re: / is suddenly 100% used
"jdls" wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost
>nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move
>and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage
>somehow goes down...it doesn't..du doesn't show anything extraordinary...is
>there something I can try to find out what's happening and or to pinpoint
>the culprit?
One possibility is that there are files in directories that are overlaid
by mounted filesystems. To check this, boot in single-user mode and
make sure that all other partitions are unmounted and then use `du -s /*'
to see where the space is being used.
(du is /usr/bin/du, so you will have to copy the binary onto your root
partition if you have /usr as a separate partition.)
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