Re: [CentOS] disk space trouble on ec2 instance

2015-03-03 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 1, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe a little unconventional, but at least it got the job done. Adding disks is unconventional in the physical server world because it has a minimum base cost and you eventually run out of disk bays in the chassis. You

Re: [CentOS] disk space trouble on ec2 instance

2015-03-01 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey guys, Thanks for this response. I just wanted to get back to you to let you know how I was able to resolve this. And yeah I think it's more informative to use df -m or df -k, so I'll try to stick to that from now on. Especially when posting to the lists. But I took a look around on the disk

Re: [CentOS] disk space trouble on ec2 instance

2015-02-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 01:46:15 -0500 Tim Dunphy wrote: /dev/sda1 9.9G 9.3G 49M 100% / 49mb out of 9.9gb is less than one-half of one percent, so the df command is probably rounding that up to 100% instead of showing you 99.51%. Whatever is checking for free disk space is likely

[CentOS] disk space trouble on ec2 instance

2015-02-27 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey all, Ok, so I've been having some trouble for a while with an EC2 instance running CentOS 5.11 with a disk volume reporting 100% usage. Root is on an EBS volume. So I've tried the whole 'du -sk | sort -nr | head -10' routine all around this volume getting rid of files. At first I was

Re: [CentOS] disk space trouble on ec2 instance

2015-02-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/27/2015 10:46 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: I'm at a loss to explain how I can delete 190MB worth of data, reboot the instance and still be at 100% usage. 190MB is less than one percent of 9.9GB aka 9900MB BTW, for cases like this, I'd suggest using df -k or -m rather than -h to get more