From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 15:38:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56191065673 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC118FC21 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m3TFYsY2028077; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:34:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m3TFYsgY028076; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:34:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:34:54 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Hartleigh Burton Message-ID: <20080429153454.GG27692@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <8176B9AB-92B0-4150-9127-C41D79D0E7C4@destra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8176B9AB-92B0-4150-9127-C41D79D0E7C4@destra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a monster stole my / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:03 -0000 On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +1000, Hartleigh Burton wrote: > Hiya! > > I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have found > a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but I > can't find what is taking up all the additional space. At best without > destroying what I still do not understand I can manage to get / to > about 101% capacity. oI see you have used du. I usually do cd / du -sk * Since the 'h switches between K, G, M, I find it a little harder to eyeball than picking just one of K, M or G. I also find the -s more useful in a general situation than -dn since it gives a good general summary. The one thing I can think of would be some file that has been rm-ed but not released by some process. The space will still stay allocated until the file is released by all processes. A reboot can help that. If reboot doesn't free anything up, then you have some serious digging to do. Your / file system is quite large and you have most of the usually culprits moved somewhere else. So, you should not need anywhere near that much disk for /. Good luck, ////jerry > > To answer a couple of potential questions straight up, there is > nothing in /root and /tmp is on a separate partition. > > intranet# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 989M 986M -76M 108% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da0s1e 989M 216K 910M 0% /tmp > /dev/da0s1f 58G 4.8G 48G 9% /usr > /dev/da0s1d 4.8G 2.2G 2.3G 49% /var > /dev/da1p1 3.3T 682G 2.4T 22% /db > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev > > intranet# du -h -d1 > 2.0K ./.snap > 1.5K ./dev > 218K ./tmp > 4.8G ./usr > 2.2G ./var > 1.7M ./etc > 2.0K ./cdrom > 2.0K ./dist > 1.1M ./bin > 71M ./boot > 4.4M ./lib > 360K ./libexec > 2.0K ./media > 512B ./net > 2.0K ./proc > 3.8M ./rescue > 26K ./root > 4.1M ./sbin > 512B ./host > 682G ./db > 689G . > > > > If I move the old kernel/GENERIC files from /boot I can manage to get > back to 101%, I really have no idea where the rest of the space has > gone though. Is there any way to locate large files on a specific > partition? > > I did have a problem not too long ago where my /db array did not mount > and MySQL managed to recreate the default/sample database on /db/ > mysql, could this default database be somewhere else on / while the / > db array problem was fixed? > > *scratches head* > > > > > > Hartz. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"