[Gllug] ext3 filesystem suddenly full

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, June 21, 2007 14:05, Ken Smith wrote:
> On an FC3 box there is 17G ext3 filesystem in a LV mounted as /.
>
> /home and a couple of other specific things are in other LV's mounted
> under /. I've unmounted them so that / & /boot is left mounted
>
> A couple of days ago my regular log file said...(as it has for months)
>
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17G  4.4G   12G  28% /
>
> Now it says
>
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17G   17G     0 100% /
>
> Totaling up the contents of the directories in / with 'du' I can account
> for 5.1G's worth. So where has over 11G's worth of stuff, that I can't
> find, come from? Especially as the system has not been changing. Well I
>
> Any ideas
>
> Ken


I find filelight to be indispensible in such situations:

http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/

Gabriel.


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