It's possible that a process has a huge open file that's been removed from the file system. Until the process is killed or close()s the file, it will still consume the space on the actual disk. Maybe something like lsof can find it, or you could just restart the suspected processes. dan On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:01:36AM -0500, Chris Smith wrote: > 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 <[1]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 > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > [2]tclug-list at mn-linux.org > [3]http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- > "The gun... insures that the people are the equal of their government > whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the > governed." > > Ronald Reagan > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:trnja001 at umn.edu > 2. mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org > 3. http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- As implied by email protocols, the information in this message is not not confidential. Any middle-man or recipient may inspect, modify, copy, forward, reply to, delete, or filter email for any purpose. As the sender, I acknowledge that I have less expectation of the control and privacy of this message than I would a post-card. As a result, nothing in this message is legally binding without cryptographic proof of its integrity, and no legal obligation can be implied on behalf of the recipient. http://bilbo.hobbiton.org/wiki/Eat_My_Sig