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Re: [Sheflug] Space problems on a machine
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 12:19 pm, Rob Keeling wrote:
> On a server that I use for storing backups we are starting to notice
> strange behavior.
>
> as root running mail gave a /tmp full error!
>
> So, I deleted a few game rpms etc and things are now ok (at least mail
> works).
>
> However
>
> suse-backup:/tmp # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 1909088 1895072 14016 100% /
> /dev/hda1 19487 4668 13813 26% /boot
> /dev/backup/backup 160742608 148085508 12657100 93% /backup
> shmfs 63304 0 63304 0% /dev/shm
>
> does not look good. how do I free up space on /?
>
> can I just delete everything in /tmp?
>
> The data stored on the machine is in /backup which is on a LVM drive array
> of two 80Gb drives. the boot drive is a 2Gb drive. The boot drive seems to
> have filled up, but I don`t know what with!
>
> I am using samba and scp to move the files on and off the machine.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> (The box is running a stock install of Suse 8.1)
>
> Rob Keeling
Try du -s /var/*
to see if there's anything there taking up lots of room
also check that you haven't accidently created a file in /dev that is large,
I know I been guilty of backing up to what I though was a device and ended up
just creating a huge file in /dev..
Dave.
>
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