Re: [expert] Help! root full but can't find a cause

[Thierry Terrier]

So far I've phyiscally examined the filesystem with mc and du to see if
I could find an extra large file somewhere, but nothing is popping out.
The only thing on the "/" filesystem is everything but /var and /usr.
I'm suspicious of the manner in which /mnt may be affecting the root
filesystem.
Any ideas?

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             718M  674M  7.6M  99% /
none                   62M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda10            618M  308M  310M  50% /home
/dev/hdc1             643M  611M     0 100% /mnt/arc
/dev/hda11            3.5G  2.1G  1.2G  61% /mnt/arc_2
/dev/hda6             1.4G  1.4G   26M  99% /usr
/dev/hda7             934M  538M  349M  61% /var
/dev/hda9             3.9G  906M  2.8G  24% /var/ftp
/dev/hda8             1.1G  179M  869M  18% /var/www
       

Is your /usr and /var directory defined at installation ? if not you can 
clean them on root partition.
umount all except /dev/hda1
check and clean all root hidden files by a mount.
Best regards



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