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

[Louis Lagendijk]

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??
> 
> I did rename a mount point in fstab to a new name and made a dir in slash to 
> mount it to but I'm sure that this didn't have anything to do with my 
> current trouble.  The system did restart several times since the rename to 
> the new mount point with out any issure...  Then this morning...  slash is 
> 100% full.
> 
> I run this as an ltsp server based on FC5 and none of my clients will boot 
> with slash being 100% full.
> 
> Ideas??
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 
> 
try the following:
umount /oldslash
df /oldslash

as you mounted a separate filesystem there, a the old directory there is
invisible, but may still contain a lot of data.....