Dan was right! I have openvpn running and its log file had been deleted so it was just writing to memory! lsof +L1 found it Thanks everyone for your help! Chris On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Dan Rue <drue at therub.org> wrote: > 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 > -- "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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081020/4197933f/attachment-0001.htm