Filled up the filesystem. How?
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 19:58:38 UTC 2005
On 6/8/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>
> Figure out what you consider a "bloated" file, then
>
> find / -size +nnn[c|k] -print
>
> For example, if you feel 200MB is bloated:
>
> find / -size +200000k -print
>
> will display all files 200MB (200,000kB) or larger.
>
> > I thought of waiting for FC4 and just rm'ing the whole drive (I
> > managed to back up /home/whats_important_to_me onto a 256 XD card with
> > a usb card reader), but we need the machine daily.
> >
> > Please, any other ideas about what to check, and what I can erase are
> > seriously needed right about now. If someone I trust (the names
> > Dalloz, Lynch and a few others come to mind) want to ssh in, I'll see
> > if I can set up the daemon. Thanks all, I always appreciate your help.
> > And your willingness to teach patiently.
>
> Have you checked to see if your machine is swapping? Use "free" and
> see how much free memory you have. "vmstat 5" will also show you if
> you're swapping.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> - -
> - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
I just erased a bunch of packages (evolution, thunderbird, etc). I'm
thinking clearly now- I have not installed anything new on this
computer in a few weeks, but in less than a week I filled up the last
2 gigs of disk space, and not in /home. Some questions:
1) What (other than logs- checked that) outside of /home could fill up
that quickly?
2) I know know how to find large files, and organize them by size. But
how can I find new (or recently changed) files and organize them by
date? I think the solution lies in that route.
The output of free is:
[root at localhost dotancohen]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 483304 473692 9612 0 19204 212356
-/+ buffers/cache: 242132 241172
Swap: 983032 236 982796
And vmstat 5 is:
[root at localhost dotancohen]# vmstat 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
3 0 236 9532 19288 212420 0 0 8 28 189 15 28 47 25 0
2 0 236 9388 19296 212424 0 0 0 18 1910 2644 53 47 0 0
2 0 236 9412 19304 212432 0 0 0 16 1924 2769 50 50 0 0
2 0 236 9404 19312 212436 0 0 0 9 1916 2799 49 51 0 0
2 0 236 9404 19320 212444 0 0 0 8 1922 2769 49 51 0 0
2 0 236 9404 19328 212448 0 0 0 8 1905 2800 49 51 0 0
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