Re: Disk Full issue

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@sjki.be>]

Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
> I came in this Monday morning to find some problems on my debian server
> because the disk is full.
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1       256149    256149         0 100% /
> tmpfs                   453372         0    453372   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p9      1831597    319589   1414293  19% /home
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3     22119564   1374052  19621880   7% /srv
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p8       367063      8322    339158   3% /tmp
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5      4807072    769760   3793128  17% /usr
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6      2883376    289116   2447792  11% /var
>
> I can't seem to think of anything unnecessary that may be eating up the
> space, perhaps I just made it way too small?
>
> Can anyone think of a common offender I should be tracking down, or is
> there a way to increase this partition without losing all my data?
>
>
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I have a script to search for big files, as that is what you first might 
one to do:
find / -xdev -type f -size +1024 -exec ls -la {} \; | sort -brut " "

Change the 1024 to your own liking, it might give you some clues.

Benedict