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Offline punk123456

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immediate help needed for continuously incresing disk space
« on: September 06, 2010, 07:51:09 PM »
my free disk space is reducing continuously
I have 10 GB aloted for fedora 13
yesterday ther was 52%  free space
but have reduced gradually to 32%

i have apache+mysql server but not started ,even disk space is filling up


root@localhost utpal]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
9998576 6229780[COLOR="Red"] 3260892[/COLOR] 66% /
tmpfs 254088 624 253464 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 495844 27740 442504 6% /boot

[utpal@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                       9998576   6379636 [COLOR="Red"]  3111036[/COLOR]  68% /
tmpfs                   254088       560    253528   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2               495844     27740    442504   6% /boot

root@localhost utpal]# du -hs
du: cannot access `./.gvfs': Permission denied
2.4G   .
[root@localhost utpal]# df -H
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
                        11G   6.6G   3.2G  68% /
tmpfs                  261M   574k   260M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2              508M    29M   454M   6% /boot
[root@localhost utpal]#

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Re: immediate help needed for continuously incresing disk space
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 04:07:29 AM »
check log section some time it increased rapidly of if you have any logging for any service check its log size

Offline dragoncity99

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Re: immediate help needed for continuously incresing disk space
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2010, 03:13:52 AM »
You have to strategize how to troubleshoot this in my opinion. Here are my 2 cents for you to find the nasty file/files

1. Files can be small but alot ? Very tricky (Process trapping will help)
2. A file but very huge ? Very easy (A tool like jdiskreport or any OSS gnome/kde tools will help)