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
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] .
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] .
Full Root
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. Thanks Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
