Tommy Reynolds wrote:
Uttered "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus:
/dev/sda1 6.7G 6.6G 0 100% /
This is what my space looks like. This is the / partition. I have 2
other servers running that are much busier, and one is a older ( a dog
as far as I'm concerned) however they are running ext2. They have both
been up and running for 100 days + I rebooted them lately - just for
fun. Neither one of them just ran out of space however. The /home and
the /var drives are partitioned off so that the website, ftp, and home
drives don't mess with the / space.
EXT3 journals are of fixed size; that ain't the problem.
Check _all_ the places where log files are kept, not just "/var/log/messages". For example, apache keeps logs in another place.
Just for fun, do a:
# ls -l /var/spool/mail
to see if an account is receiving mail but not checking it.
Also, since the journal is fixed size, /something/ else is growing.
Running "du / > /tmp/du.log" will give a log of all files/directories trees on the disk and the space used in each all the way to the end leaves.
If a single tree indicates a large space usage investigate the details to find out where the space is actually used.
If this is a server it may be in /var/log/httpd, /var/log/sa or something similar.
A while back I had a machine with a broken version of logrotate and that would fill my system up with thousands of files as it brokenly attempted to do its job.
Cheers!
