RobinC
msg:912974 | 4:49 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
You'd need a proper linux guru to answer, but iirc all files and directories take a certain amount of header space too - they might also be rounding up to the nearest block. I might be wrong mind you ;-) Another possibility is if there's a full snapshot as backup - which would really eat into your allotment. Personally I'd email the provider and ask them where all the space is diappearing to...
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quotations
msg:912975 | 4:57 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Won't it go through the directories recursively? For example, # du /home ¦ sort -nr ¦ more Should give you reverse numeric sorted space usage for every directory from /home down. # du / ¦ sort -nr ¦ more Should give you reverse numeric sorted space usage for the entire drive. # du /home ¦ sort -nr > /du.txt Should give you reverse numeric sorted space usage for the entire drive in a file /du.txt. Put that in a cron job with >> and an echo $date and you should have a running log of what is going on.
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gutabo
msg:912976 | 5:16 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
"Put that in a cron job with >> and an echo $date and you should have a running log of what is going on." Mind helping me out with that? I know how to set a crontab, but I don't know how to use the syntax that much... :'(
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gutabo
msg:912977 | 5:17 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
...And thanks! ^_^
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gutabo
msg:912978 | 2:24 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
HELP! I can't run a cronjob with du, I get this:
du: ¦: No such file or directory
du: sort: No such file or directory
du: -nr: No such file or directory
Please help me!
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stechert
msg:912979 | 8:51 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
if you want to get a more summarized report using du, try doing something like "du -sk *" in the root of your site. -s means "just give me the summary for the named item"
-k means "give it to me in Kbytes, not bytes"
* means "for all of the subdirs immediately below my dir, but not their subdirs" Cheers,
Andre
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Josk
msg:912980 | 9:33 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Remember 'man'. Give you the manual for a command. So 'man du' will give you the manual page for du. You may need to put the full path of a command. Use 'whereis xyz' to find something. Eg, 'whereis du' gives 'du: /usr/bin/du /usr/share/man/man1/du.1.gz'. This tells you that du is located in /usr/bin and has a man page in /usr/share/man/man1/. Do the same for sort, etc.
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kenta
msg:912981 | 11:33 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
If it's a VPS I assume you have multiple partitions. Did the warning e-mail say where the problem was? You might want to just check "df -m" and see which partitions are eating up space.
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gutabo
msg:912982 | 5:24 pm on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for your replies! I tried to use the whereis command and it works but there's this warning: Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/share/perl/man! What does it mean? I C&Ped a warning mail above(in a previous post)... Here: I just tested this: 40 15 * * * /usr/bin/du / ¦ /usr/bin/sort -nr >> /path/to/file/dulog.`/bin/date +\%m\%d`.txt This is the error message I got(I think it has something to do with the "¦") du: ¦: No such file or directory
du: -nr: No such file or directory Isn't there a way to have something like this:
root 45kb
folder1 56456kb
folder2 3435kb
folder3 8766kb So I can see how much does each folder(and subfloder below it) has but not get it listed(just the parent), so I can see that (in the example) folder1 is obviously the one with the "burden"? Thanks in advance!
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drbrain
msg:912983 | 10:55 pm on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
df -h will tell you which mountpoint is at capacity. go there then type du -d1 -h depth 1, human-readable output, from this directory. To run from the crontab, you probably need to put the string in quotes. See crontab(5) (that's man 5 crontab).
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danny
msg:912984 | 4:48 am on Oct 27, 2003 (gmt 0) |
DU is depleted uranium... stay away from that stuff! [Unix commands aren't capitalised. Case sensitivity means that DU could be something completely different to du.]
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gutabo
msg:912985 | 5:22 pm on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for your replies! I can finally have an estimated of what's going on in our VPS. Now if I could only place it in a crontab... Any help there? Thanks again!
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