From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 05:49:58 2007 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 7BE2F16A417 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:49:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (duane.dbq.yournetplus.com [65.124.230.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F8F13C459 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:49:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by duane.dbq.yournetplus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E6C6D44B; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:49:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill X-X-Sender: d.hill@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com To: Zbigniew Szalbot In-Reply-To: <94136a2c0710012236t28b43fc8ud92df49abf0e61d1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20071002054749.W57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <94136a2c0710012212x506ebc0ajf76ef69ec2f36720@mail.gmail.com> <20071002051809.R57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <94136a2c0710012223q64102a41y93f3f983fcfc0137@mail.gmail.com> <20071002052548.S57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <94136a2c0710012236t28b43fc8ud92df49abf0e61d1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: determining the space used in / partition 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, 02 Oct 2007 05:49:58 -0000 On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, zszalbot@gmail.com confabulated: > 2007/10/2, Duane Hill : >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:23 +0200, zszalbot@gmail.com confabulated: >> >>> Hello again, >>> >>>>> Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: >>>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >>>>> /dev/ad0s1a 198126 196070 -13794 108% / >>>>> devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev >>>>> /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217762 36732642 10% /usr >>>>> /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210580 24815046 11% /var >>>>> devfs 1 1 0 100% /var/named/dev >>>>> /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 35322324 49% /mnt/usbck >>>>> >>>>> How can I determine what occupies the space in it? That is, it is not >>>>> big as you can see. So I issued: >>>>> du -hs / >>>>> but it was taking ages (I am not sure but maybe du -hs counts all >>>>> directories on the HD? >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, I do not really know where to look what has eaten the / space. >>>>> Were it for /usr or /var, it would be obvious to me where to look for >>>>> information. >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks! >>>> >>>> I don't see you have defined a /tmp partition. Perhaps /tmp is taking up >>>> all the space. Try: >>>> >>>> du -h /tmp >>>> >>>> and see how much /tmp is taking up. >>> du -hs /tmp >>> 1.4M /tmp >>> >>> du -hs / >>> 40GB >>> >>> One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which >>> makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend >>> someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered >>> off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed >>> because the USB drive was not mounted at that time. I use cron for >>> this task. Does it matter could have caused this? >> >> If the '-L' switch is used (telling dump it is dumping a live file system) >> it will first dump everything into a .snap directory before performing the >> dump. What does: >> >> du -hs /.snap >> >> give for a result? > Thank you Duane! Yes, I do use the L switch. > Unfortunately, > du -hs /.snap > 2.0K /.snap > > Hah - mystery cleared! > I know what happened but you put me on the right track. > > For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir > on a USB drive called backup. Now, since the drive was unavailable, > the dump utility created /backup dir and populated it with > lists-var-l0-2007-09-30.dump.bz2 (dumping var) but of course it died > as there was not enough space on the / to do it. I mean this is what I > make of this. > > So after deleting /backup I get: > df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 198126 74084 108192 41% / > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1e 44511308 4217760 36732644 10% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 30462636 3210650 24814976 11% /var > devfs 1 1 0 100% /var/named/dev > /dev/da0s1c 75685352 34308200 35322324 49% /mnt/usbck I'm still learning about all the little details about the workings of dump myself. It would seem to me, you are dumping to /backup which is the mount point for the USB device. Would that hold true? ------ _|_ (_| |