50 gig slash went from 25 gig to 50 gigs- full over night

[Thomas Cameron]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 14:25 -0600, Jim Christiansen wrote:
>   
>> Hello,  My server system has gone from its slash drive being  50% full to 
>> 100% over night-
>>
>> [root at christiansens ~]# df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1              48G   48G     0 100% /
>>
>> I've looked at the size of every directory in slash and they all add up to 
>> about 25 gigs or so...
>> /home is on another partition.
>>
>> Where did all of the space go to in /dev/sda1??
>>     
>
> What does ls -l / show?
>
>   
Or run as root:

du -hs /*

This will tell you how much space each directory is taking.  I'm betting 
your /var directory is full of something.

Thomas