Re: Full Root
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. A file that had been deleted, but is still opened by some process (e.g. a daemon) will still occupy space until the last process that has a file descriptor open will close it. So if all else fails, see if rebooting makes any difference. Nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNKfP4VptA0IhBm0NAQFmYQL+NBLm513FjE2QMnKlFHT0mpTZsqltziUb p1eQ7WfyNoQZVIH7QsT4oRUhSQJBqthRGu7MWWlog/HWYLIo1wbo6QxoBy8dqCEp k5OLgTfdIeAPdu3tTZddA13DHtVjzMts =VmjD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Full Root
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. OK, lets do this systematically: df -- will show you how much space you have left du -sx /* -- will sum up the diskspace your toplevel directories use (excluding your /usr and /var which are on different partitions) find / -xdev -size 500k -- will find all files bigger then 500k on your disk (excluding your /usr and /var which are on different partitions) You could also check if /usr and /var *are* on different partitions (cat /etc/mtab) Ciao, Martin - Who always has too few diskspace :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Full Root
Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the reason that it is. Fsck, shows the drive as find. Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. Is it possible that you have data in /usr on the root partition, which is hidden when you mount the separate partition on /usr? (Or /var, of course.) To test, umount the partitions and then ls the /usr and /var directories. There should be nothing in them. You can use du to find out how much space is taken up by a directory. Do this with only the root partition mounted: cd /; du -s * (Another responder said to use `du -sx /*', but I find that this does not ignore other partitions; the man page leaves me uncertain about its intended effect.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
