There are other symptoms, like users can't start a new session in the web
app it is running, as it is messing up MySQL..
It is reporting the space in df...

[root at mail ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      130G  129G     0 100% /
/dev/sda1              99M   24M   71M  26% /boot
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu> wrote:

> Where is it reporting zero available space? Maybe you have a partition for
> read only media such as a DVD and it's misreporting that as lacking space.
>
> Try `df -h` to get information about your mounted partitions.
>
> Chris Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a server reporting zero available HD space, and I believe it
>> because the website it isn't working right. However, I can't seem to find
>> any files that are huge or taking up this space.
>> Below is an output from du * in the root directory. I've also used find in
>> a variety of way to find any files bigger than 10meg or so and nothing seems
>> to be big enough to begin to take up the whole 130 gig drive.. i hope
>> someone has some ideas.. this server is in a  remote colo too btw
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> This is an output from du:
>>
>> [root at mail /]# du -sh *
>> 8.1M    bin
>> 19M    boot
>> 4.0K    data
>> 96K    dev
>> 59M    etc
>> 82M    home
>> 267M    lib
>> 21M    lib64
>> 16K    lost+found
>> 12K    media
>> 0    misc
>> 8.0K    mnt
>> 0    net
>> 322M    opt
>> 0    proc
>> 124M    root
>> 26M    sbin
>> 8.0K    selinux
>> 8.0K    srv
>> 0    sys
>> 20K    tmp
>> 3.2G    usr
>> 636M    var
>>
>>
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