[vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

[Shwaine]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Jay Strauss wrote:

> hydrogen:/# du -hxs *
> 2.7M    bin
> 8.3M    boot
> 0       cdrom
> 88K     dev
> 6.9M    etc
> 1.0K    initrd
> 0       initrd.img
> 79M     lib
> 12K     lost+found
> 3.0K    media
> 6.0K    mnt
> 385M    proc
> 3.3M    root
> 3.6M    sbin
> 1.0K    srv
> 0       sys
> 13K     tmp
> 0       vmlinuz
>

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Jay Strauss wrote:

> hydrogen:/# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             133M  107M   19M  86% /
> tmpfs                 189M  4.0K  189M   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda8              27G  1.4G   24G   6% /home
> /dev/hda7             361M  8.1M  334M   3% /tmp
> /dev/hda5             4.6G  821M  3.6G  19% /usr
> /dev/hda6             2.8G  113M  2.6G   5% /var
> fe:/home               50G   16G   32G  34% /mnt/fe/home


Off the bat a few things popped at me... first double-check the size on 
/proc. That seems a bit high, particularly given your second email that 
says the partition is not even that large. If you have a rogue process 
chewing up disk space, you'll want to solve that first. Second, also check 
the inodes available with df -i just in case this is a case of inode 
exhaustion instead of disk space. My final thought is to look through /lib 
and see if you need all the libraries you have installed as it seems to be 
the lion's share of the partition. My lib directory is about half the size 
of yours, but I tend to be minimalistic with my installations.

So those are a few things to look into. And in the process of looking at 
how my box was set up to compare to yours, I discovered that I messed up 
my fstab on the rebuild a couple months ago so now I'm off to deal with 
that. Accidently put "/home" for the "/usr" mount point, so now I have two 
partitions defined as /home mount point in fstab. That's what I get for 
installing machines late at night.