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

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:38, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 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.

/var/spool/mail/root is probably full of logwatch messages
telling you your filesystem is almost full....

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  Les Mikesell
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