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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:39:08 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Murk Fletcher <murk.fletcher@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's taking up all my disk space?
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:21:25 +0100, Murk Fletcher wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Woke up to a nasty surprise this morning:
> 
> /: write failed, filesystem is full
> # df -h
> Filesystem         Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/gpt/rootfs     38G     35G   -7.4M   100%    /
> devfs              1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> fdescfs            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev/fd
> linprocfs          4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc
> 
> I have no idea why this is because I'm only using my FreeBSD VPS to run a
> small Rails app in `/usr/home/`:
> 
> # du -sh /usr/home
> 8.6G    /usr/home
> # du -sh /usr/
>  12G    /usr/
> # du -sh /
>  34G    /
> 
> Maybe there's a way to use `du` to show all files larger than 1GB and then
> pass it on to some other command to sort them by size?

First determine which top-level directory entry is abnormally
huge:

	# du -hs /*

Then narrow down the problem. I suspect /var or /tmp...




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...