Thanks Everyone,
That was it. Now I'm at:
[root@christiansens ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 48G 22G 23G 49% /
tmpfs 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 96G 40G 52G 44% /home
/dev/sdb1 143G 64G 73G 47% /Music-rsync
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From: Louis Lagendijk <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jim@xxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 50 gig slash went from 25 gig to 50 gigs- full over night
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:18:37 +0200
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:25 -0600, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> Hello, My server system has gone from its slash drive being 50% full to
> 100% over night-
>
> [root@christiansens ~]# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 48G 48G 0 100% /
>
> I've looked at the size of every directory in slash and they all add up
to
> about 25 gigs or so...
> /home is on another partition.
>
> Where did all of the space go to in /dev/sda1??
>
> I did rename a mount point in fstab to a new name and made a dir in slash
to
> mount it to but I'm sure that this didn't have anything to do with my
> current trouble. The system did restart several times since the rename
to
> the new mount point with out any issure... Then this morning... slash
is
> 100% full.
>
> I run this as an ltsp server based on FC5 and none of my clients will
boot
> with slash being 100% full.
>
> Ideas??
>
> Thanks, Jim
>
>
try the following:
umount /oldslash
df /oldslash
as you mounted a separate filesystem there, a the old directory there is
invisible, but may still contain a lot of data.....
