Duckula
msg:914667 | 12:55 am on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
1. I find that the directories that need more pruning are the ones where the videogame and movie trailers end up :) But you are right, you should move away the logs, maybe burning on CD when they, even compressed, begin to take too much space. I don't know about that mm_apache_session.mem, but sounds like it is some kind of buffer or cache or something. If it is not being used it should be deletable; try 'lsof ¦ grep mm_apache_session.mem' and see if something is using it. 2. There is not defrag; the ext2 filesystem defrags itself all the time (I think). Up to my knowledge, the deleted files are gone forever, unless you are using KDE, for example, that has its own "recycle bin". 3. You have done dist-upgrades... Is that Debian? If it is, look at /var/cache/apt/archives/; if it is too heavy do a 'apt-get clean' to get rid of them. You would like to burn them, too, if you're planning to reinstall something you uninstalled.
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martin
msg:914668 | 1:49 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Do a telinit 1 and then clean up everything in /tmp that seems temporary. You can also delete some stuff from /var.
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Frank_Rizzo
msg:914669 | 4:12 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
hey guys, some good tips there. I'll do some pruning later this evening. I'm getting worried though, I just checked the disk space and I'm now using 13Gb, so thats 2Gb added in a couple of days. WTH is going on? I dont think there is anything suspicious going on because the logs ok to me so far. Any ideas why 2Gb is being added in a couple of days?
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David
msg:914670 | 4:53 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Thats a bunch for two days. While I dont have the answer one of the local experts should be able to help with a command to show you all modified files from yesterday. That kind of file growth sounds like a error log or a program stuck in a loop. At that rate you will be out of space in a week or so.
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Duckula
msg:914671 | 8:17 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
This comes from the back of my head and the 'find' man page... find / -name '*' -ctime 1 will find all the files whose status was changed on the last 24 hours. <added> I think that it was more like -ctime 0, and -ctime 1 gave you the updated files from the day before yesterday... play with the values.</added>
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Frank_Rizzo
msg:914672 | 8:38 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
arggh, that produces a list of thousands of files! I have spotted that there is a /backup directory. I think this is where the backup operation thing goes. it should mount itself as /backup on the second disk. But I think its screwed. There is a /backup directory with a complete copy of the / and subdirs. But also in this is /backup/backup and /backup/backup/backup so it looks as if the backup is backing up itself and has done so for a few days. This could explain why 2Gb a day is dissapearing - the backup is copying itself to a directory called /backup on disk 1 and not onto the mount of disk 2 if you know what I mean. I just tried mounting the second disk via mount /dev/hdc3 and mount /backup but it comes back with an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc3, or too many mounted file systems I think this is one for the webhost support droids.
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Duckula
msg:914673 | 9:31 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
| so it looks as if the backup is backing up itself and has done so for a few days. |
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That's why I like coming here. Sheer comedy value ;) Sidenote: You can't mount a filesystem just like that unless there is an entry at /etc/fstab; to mount anything else the mantra is 'mount -t filesystem-type device-address mount-point; for example, to mount a cdrom you'd do 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'.
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Frank_Rizzo
msg:914674 | 10:02 pm on Aug 23, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Ok in fstab I got: ------------------------------------------- # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 # Backup drive
/dev/hdc1 /backup/boot ext3 defaults,noauto 0 1
/dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /backup ext3 defaults,noauto 0 1 ----------------------------------------- So whats that all about eh? In the past I have just typed in mount backup Ahhh, JEEEEZE, I just remembered what it could be! I changed some disk settings the other day as in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] hdparm -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda [expletive mode off] Man, what do I do now? I better fix it before those support droids find out and charge me for fixing it :) I think I'll try a reboot first as I didnt save the settings so a reboot should put it back to the slow settings right?
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Frank_Rizzo
msg:914675 | 8:30 am on Aug 24, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Ok, I dont think it is to do with me meddling with the speed up of the disk functions. I did that around 1-Aug but the disk2 /backup problem started around 18-Aug. The webhosters droids have confirmed that disk2 has a hardware fault and they will swap it out. Amazes me that the dumb backup script doesnt detect the failure and dumps the backup files on the disk it is trying to backup! Thanks for your help though guys.
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bcc1234
msg:914676 | 9:12 am on Aug 25, 2002 (gmt 0) |
try
du -h -d 1 while in / (not sure if there is a "-d 1" option in the gnu version of du, but try it). That will print out the size of all top level directories.
If the "-d" option is present - try "-d 2", that will give you a good breakdown on what's taking up space. If you don't have the "-d" option - then check the man page and see how to set the depth in your verson of the utility. The app might take a while to execute.
Be sure you are logged in as root.
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