On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:08:14AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk > seems full: > > /dev/hda1 71G 65G 3.0G 96% / > > But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB > in use. So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that > I cannot find. Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble > shoot this? follow Ralph's advice and reboot to a live-cd. In cases of suddenly full drives, start looking in /var/log first for out of control logs or /var/cache fro some runaway thing. hth A
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