Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:41:43 -0500 From: "David Radovanovic" <david.radovanovic@verizon.net> To: "Sean J. Countryman" <sean@rackoperations.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <dave@whatsthebigidea.com> Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) Message-ID: <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOMEAGEAAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <EOELLBCOGJPNEBBJEKDKIECIFAAA.sean@rackoperations.com>
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Thanks for your reply: name# du -s -h * 6.0K COPYRIGHT 2.0K backup 2.0K backuptmp 2.0G backupusr 72M backupvar 4.0M bin 542K boot 2.0K cdrom 0B compat 68K dev 2.0K dist 1.2M etc 2.0K fdd 0B home 3.6M kernel 0B kernel.old 2.0K mnt 5.4M modules 5.4M modules.old 37K proc 18M root 12M sbin 2.1M stand 0B sys 2.0K tar-e.log 0B tar.log 118K tmp 2.0G usr 82M var David Radovanovic WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. -- Bright ideas for the Web! 249 Partition Street Saugerties, New York 12477 (845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [-----Original Message----- [From: Sean J. Countryman [mailto:sean@rackoperations.com] [Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:32 PM [To: FreeBSD Questions; dave@whatsthebigidea.com [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) [ [ [from the root directory ("/") run: "du -s -h *" and post the [results. That [will tell us who the offendor is. That will show the disk usage "du" for [each of the directories in the / directory. If you wish to do a bit more [detective work, go into the largest directory and rerun "du -s -h *" on it [to find which subdirectory in that directory is oversized. In this manner [of drilling down, you can discover who the big offender is and then we can [figure out a good course of action. [ [I've seen this a bunch working tech support (for a large internet hosting [company :-) Everytime I drill down to find the problem, it turns out to be [something like an out of control log file, a grossly large mysql database, [or something similar. [ [Let me know if you need anything else [ [Sean Countryman [ [ [ [-----Original Message----- [From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David [Radovanovic [Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:25 AM [To: Stephen Hovey [Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) [ [ [Am I backing up the /backup files? Should I comment out the line: [/usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/ in the [script? Maybe I [don't understand FreeBSD's filesystem though you can see that /backup is a [separate 20 gig drive. Thanks for your time :) [ [David Radovanovic [WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. [-- Bright ideas for the Web! [249 Partition Street [Saugerties, New York 12477 [(845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 [http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [ [ [[-----Original Message----- [[From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:shovey@buffnet.net] [[Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:15 PM [[To: David Radovanovic [[Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks filling up) [[ [[ [[ [[Your root partitions and your /backup are the same - so your backing up to [[overflowing. [[ [[On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Radovanovic wrote: [[ [[> Hello, [[> Searched everywhere which lead me to a prior posting about a similar [[> problem. My file system is filling up again, but in different places. I [[> initiated a rscync script that runs via cron which [coincidently ran just [[> before my system filling up. I'm sure the answer is obvious to [anyone but [[> myself. Any help would help divert my disaster. Thanks. My system: [[> [[> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on [[> /dev/ad0s1a 128990 127118 -8446 107% / [[> /dev/ad0s1f 257998 118 237242 0% /tmp [[> /dev/ad0s1g 9092908 2060994 6304482 25% /usr [[> /dev/ad0s1e 257998 83548 153812 35% /var [[> /dev/ad2s1a 128990 2 118670 0% /backup [[> /dev/ad2s1f 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp [[> /dev/ad2s1g 18028798 2083266 14503230 13% /backupusr [[> /dev/ad2s1e 257998 2 237358 0% /backuptmp [[> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc [[> [[> The script in question: [[> [[> #!/bin/sh [[> [[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avx --delete --stats / /backup/ [[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats --exclude=/run/ /var/ [[/backupvar/ [[> /usr/local/bin/rsync -av --delete --stats /usr/ /backupusr/ [[> [[> Thanks again for any help. [[> [[> [[> David Radovanovic [[> WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. [[> -- Bright ideas for the Web! [[> 249 Partition Street [[> Saugerties, New York 12477 [[> (845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 [[> http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [[> [[> [[> [-----Original Message----- [[> [From: David Radovanovic [mailto:david.radovanovic@verizon.net] [[> [Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:57 AM [[> [To: Giorgos Keramidas; dave@whatsthebigidea.com [[> [Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [[> [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) [[> [ [[> [ [[> [If I'm reading this right the most suspictious culprit in /dev: [[> [ [[> [-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 68960256 Feb 9 04:04 st0 [[> [ [[> [Any ideas? [[> [ [[> [As far as CPAN is concerned, should I delete the files or [[create a symlink [[> [like you, to another partition with more space? [[> [ [[> [Thanks for your time, I appreciate it :) [[> [ [[> [ [[> [David Radovanovic [[> [WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. [[> [-- Bright ideas for the Web! [[> [249 Partition Street [[> [Saugerties, New York 12477 [[> [(845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 [[> [http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [[> [ [[> [ [[> [[-----Original Message----- [[> [[From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] [[> [[Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:22 AM [[> [[To: dave@whatsthebigidea.com [[> [[Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [[> [[Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) [[> [[ [[> [[ [[> [[Please don't remove the Cc: of the list when replying. I might not [[> [[know the answer, or be too busy to read mail. If you Cc: the list [[> [[too, someone else will have a change to reply too. Probably faster [[> [[than me. [[> [[ [[> [[On 2003-02-13 07:19, David Radovanovic [[> [[<david.radovanovic@verizon.net> wrote: [[> [[> [Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] wrote: [[> [[> [ [[> [[> [Start with: [[> [[> [ [[> [[> [ rsc-web1# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20 [[> [[> [ [[> [[> [This will print the top-20 space consumers of your / filesystem. [[> [[> [What's the output of this command on your system? [[> [[> [[> [[> rsc-web1# du -kx / | sort -nr | head -20 [[> [[> 120903 / [[> [[> 67460 /dev [[> [[ [[> [[This looks odd. Half of your / space is in /dev! Look in /dev with [[> [[`ls -l' and see which part of /dev takes up so much space. [[> [[ [[> [[> 18464 /root [[> [[> 17988 /root/.cpan [[> [[ [[> [[CPAN crap. This is why I don't use cpan at home, and if I absolutely [[> [[have to use it, I symlink /root/.cpan -> /home/giorgos/.cpan :-( [[> [[ [[> [[> 12228 /sbin [[> [[> 10944 /root/.cpan/build [[> [[> 5480 /modules.old [[> [[> 5480 /modules [[> [[> 4198 /root/.cpan/sources [[> [[> 4094 /bin [[> [[> 3446 /root/.cpan/sources/authors [[> [[> 3328 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id [[> [[> 2514 /root/.cpan/build/DBI-1.30 [[> [[> 2176 /stand [[> [[> 1256 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J [[> [[> 1246 /root/.cpan/build/DBI-1.30/blib [[> [[> 1232 /etc [[> [[> 1134 /root/.cpan/build/Class-MakeMethods-1.005 [[> [[> 966 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JC [[> [[> 964 /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JC/JCRISTY [[> [[ [[> [ [[> [ [[> [[> [[> [[> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org [[> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message [[> [[ [ [ [ [To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org [with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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