Fwd: Re: /dev/hda full - cannot find used space
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Subject: Re: /dev/hda full - cannot find used space
Date: Saturday 05 August 2006 22:36
From: Robert Jeffrey Miesen <bobby_miesen@yahoo.com>
To: nicksub500-deb@yahoo.com
Have you tried running 'fsck -c /dev/hda1'? That would reveal the presence of
orphan nodes, which would certainly consume space.
Another possibility is that you might have a lot of bad blocks. To check for
this, reboot your system from a boot cd (ideally, from a Knoppix DVD) and
run 'e2fsck -c /dev/hda1'. This will tell you how many of the blocks on your
root partition are bad. If a great number of them are bad, I would STRONGLY
recommend that you tar up your most important files, make a copy of your
currently installed packages (you can do this quickly by
executing 'dpkg --get-selections > currentSelections'), create a new level 0
backup of your whole hard disk (that is, a full image of your hard drive), go
buy a new one and do a bare metal restore of your system (that is, restore
your system from the freshly created level 0 backup). Mondo is a great piece
of software for the purpose of making a level 0 backup. You can get mondo
either by going to http://www.mondorescue.org or by running 'apt-get install
mondo'.
Hope this helps.
On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:30, nicksub500-deb@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a sarge installation, which has been running perfectly for a year or
> so. It runs a small office - mail, ldap, database, network drives, etc. It
> was installed in standard sarge multi user configuration. It has an 80GB
> hard disk and a 250GB external drive mounted via USB2 for backups
> (/mnt/usbdrive). Finally, it uses shfs to mount a remote file system via
> ssh (/mnt/martha-pub).
>
> I have recently noticed that the hda partition is full. The problem is that
> I can't see where the space has gone. From the du listings, I can account
> for maybe 70MB on hda, but nowhere near 250MB.
>
> I would be grateful for any help or suggestions.
>
>
> root@vine:/# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 250M 250M 0 100% /
> tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda9 65G 23G 39G 37% /home
> /dev/hda8 361M 8.3M 333M 3% /tmp
> /dev/hda5 4.6G 651M 3.8G 15% /usr
> /dev/hda6 2.8G 231M 2.4G 9% /var
> www-data@martha:/home/publish
> 5.5G 591M 4.7G 12% /mnt/martha-pub
>
> root@vine:/# du -sh .
> 25G .
>
> root@vine:/# du -sh *
> 3.0M bin
> 6.7M boot
> 0 cdrom
> 87K dev
> 2.0M etc
> 23G home
> 1.0K initrd
> 0 initrd.img
> 46M lib
> 12K lost+found
> 2.0K media
> 321M mnt
> 1.0K opt
> 482M proc
> 24K root
> 3.6M sbin
> 1.0K srv
> 0 sys
> 197K tmp
> 619M usr
> 200M var
> 0 vmlinuz
>
> root@vine:/# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 34 273073+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 35 9729 77875087+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 35 642 4883728+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 643 1007 2931831 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1008 1188 1453851 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/hda8 1189 1237 393561 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 1238 9729 68211958+ 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> root@vine:/# cat /etc/mtab
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
> www-data@martha:/home/publish /mnt/martha-pub shfs
> version=2,rw,rmode=775,uid=33,gid=50,mnt=/mnt/martha-pub,fd=4 0 0
>
> root@vine:/# cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> www-data@martha:/home/publish /mnt/martha-pub shfs
> defaults,rmode=775,persistent,uid=33,gid=50 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext3 defaults 0 0
> root@vine:/#
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Robert Miesen
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Robert Miesen
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