Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
>>>>> Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:31:26PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
>> I have accidentally filled something, that I shouldn't have, on my root
>> directory, and have now got a 100% usage of the disk containing my /. This
>> is causing me problems. (Now there's a surprise!!)
>> I have no backup of my /. Yes, I know. I deserve everything I've got. But
>> now that I have been given my just deserts, can any kind soul come to my
>> rescue? I would be so grateful.... I may, of course, just have to
>> reinstall. :-(
> You should be able to find the largest files on your filesystem by
> running the following command:
> find / -xdev -exec stat --printf '%s\t%N\n' {} \;|sort -n
It could actually be simplified down to:
# du -x --all / | sort -n
> It will probably take a few minutes to execute, but you should get
> back a list of files, sorted by size, the last few files being the
> largest.
(Though I'd prefer -r -n, so that the largest are to come
/first/.)
Back to the original problem, iff the logs (/var/log/) are on
the root filesystem, I'd probably start from there. It makes
sense to backup this directory to a removable drive, but if it's
not an option, the older logs (as in, e. g.: debug.[3-9].gz) may
simply be deleted at once, to get some spare filesystem space.
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