On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 20:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Today, I looked at my disc free space, after deleting some files. > >>I found that, after deleting approx. 28M of files, that df reported > >>the disc as being 93% full. Well, the last time I tried looking, > >>it was 85% full, just a couple of days ago. I have created a couple > >>of text files, and read some e-mail. But why was my disc 8% more > >>full than before? > >> > >>I searched and searched for where the space was hiding, and could > >>not find it. I was comparing with the output from the earlier > >>du -s /some/path/* | sort -gr | head, and couldn't find it. > >> > >>I did some sync commands, and tried again, and it just looked > >>like things should be smaller. > >> > >>Eventually, I rebooted. Now du thinks that my disc is 84% full. > >> > >>I don't automatically delete /tmp, and it only has 136M in it, > >>anyway. > >> > >>$ df > >>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > >>/dev/hda5 7633264 6081748 1163768 84% / > >>/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot > >>none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm > >> > >>At 93%, it must have been about 7098935 blocks used. How did a > >>reboot free up 1017187 blocks? > >> > >>$ du --version > >>du (coreutils) 5.2.1 > >>$ uname -a > >>Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686 > >>i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > > ---- > > since basically everything is in /dev/hda5 I would venture to guess that > > you have a lot of space tied up in /var that you aren't considering > > how/when things go there. > > > > du -sh /var/log > > du -sh /var/cache/yum > > > > Don't know what you are doing with this system and you may be able to > > make space by doing things like 'yum clean all' or removing the log > > rotations #'d .1 .2 .3 .4 in /var/log which can grow really large if you > > are logging firewall stuff on a cable modem connection. Also, if you > > crank up the log level on some stuff (ldap or samba come immediately to > > mind - like samba log level 10) can really log a ton of stuff in very > > little time. > > Umm, I had done du before, and all directories showed to be the same > size as before. I used > > $ ls / > bin dev home lib misc opt root selinux tftpboot usr > boot etc initrd lost+found mnt proc sbin sys tmp var > > du -s /bin /boot /etc /home /lib /misc /opt /root /sbin /selinux /sys \ > /tmp /usr /var | sort -gr >> du.out > > Sizes two days ago: > > 3629612 /usr > 1543788 /home > 456448 /lib > 383804 /var > 256283 /proc > 61600 /etc > 48528 /tmp > 20488 /boot > 11884 /sbin > 5040 /bin > (don't have less than this saved) > > > Sizes today > > 3629612 /usr > 1501496 /home > 456448 /lib > 382648 /var > 61600 /etc > 11884 /sbin > 5040 /bin > 1456 /root > 572 /dev > 136 /tmp > 4 /selinux > 4 /opt > 4 /misc > 0 /sys ---- reboot cleaned out /tmp Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
