hello

my very small (600mb) root partition ( file server )
was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)

How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?


Thank you

Hi

serge_moscou wrote:
>
> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?

My answer to the second question:
# du -s /*
and compare with the output right after the installation ;-)

VR

serge_moscou wrote:
>
> my very small (600mb) root partition ( file server )
> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)

What is this sth program (or file)? Never heard of it.

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Well I mean I don't know what could have eaten up all free space.



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> serge_moscou wrote:
>>
>> my very small (600mb) root partition ( file server )
>> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
>> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>
> What is this sth program (or file)? Never heard of it.
>
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:14:05 +0300, serge_moscou wrote:

> hello
>
> my very small (600mb) root partition ( file server )
> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>
Sounds to me like you had a runaway process eating up space in /tmp.

> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?
>

Boot off a CD and see what /tmp or /var looks like.
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Visvanath Ratnaweera <spam@ratnaweera.net> wrote:
>> How to free up some space and where to look and what to delete?
>
> My answer to the second question:
> # du -s /*
> and compare with the output right after the installation ;-)

To find out where all space is gone in a big partition I usually use a
command looking something like this:

du /some/path | sort -n

In this case, when it is the root partition you might want to use the -x
swith to du to avoid getting results from other big partitions:

du -x / | sort -n

The answer to the first question would be to use the command rm on some
appropriate files, perhaps with the switch -r on directories depending on
what du finds.

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serge_moscou wrote: (*** and top-posted - fixed ***)
> "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>
>> serge_moscou wrote:
>>>
>>> my very small (600mb) root partition ( file server )
>>> was filled up to 300 mb at the beginning but very quickly
>>> sth ate up all space. (maybe some log files)
>>
>> What is this sth program (or file)? Never heard of it.
>
> Well I mean I don't know what could have eaten up all free space.

Don't top-post. I fixed this one. See the following links.

You still haven't identified the sth program.

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CBFalconer wrote:
> You still haven't identified the sth program.

erm, not sure if you're just kidding or not, but sth is an abbreviation for
"something"...

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:27:24 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:

>> You still haven't identified the sth program.

> erm, not sure if you're just kidding or not, but sth is an abbreviation for
> "something"...

It is? In what language?

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Dan C wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:27:24 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>>> You still haven't identified the sth program.
>
>> erm, not sure if you're just kidding or not, but sth is an abbreviation
>> for "something"...
>
> It is? In what language?
>
I must admit that even in my youth, having worked in the printing/publishing
industry, I haven't come across sth as an abbreviation for "something".
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