[ale] [Solved] HELP - Out of Storage on /

[erik at mathists.com (Erik Mathis)]

Checkout autofs for the failed mounts.

-Erik-

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> Root cause:
> ?Human error. Bad assumption ... /Data which always holds mount
> ?points on this system didn't. The expected disk was not mounted after a
> ?reboot.
>
> Forcing the find to search on the partition found the files.
> ?$ sudo find / -type f -size +100M -xdev
>
> Seems a backup partition didn't get mounted correctly after the weekend reboot
> (recall the WD USB disk issue asked last month?). Writing backups to the wrong
> partition was a bad idea.
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James Sumners
>> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:34 AM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] HELP - Out of Storage on /
>>
>> `find / -type f -size +200M 2>/dev/null`
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:29, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>> 20GB partition mounted on /.
>>> df is reporting 100% used on /.
>>> If I add up all the reported storage, only 4.7GB is used.
>>>
>>>
>>> $ \df -k
>>> Filesystem ? ? ? ? ? 1K-blocks ? ? ?Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1 ? ? ? ? ? ? 19501440 ?19497112 ? ? ?4328 100% /
>>> none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4088752 ? ? ? 348 ? 4088404 ? 1% /dev
>>> none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4093728 ? ? ? ? 0 ? 4093728 ? 0% /dev/shm
>>> none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4093728 ? ? ? 600 4093128 ? 1% /var/run
>>> none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4093728 ? ? ? ? 0 ? 4093728 ? 0% /var/lock
>>> none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4093728 ? ? ? ? 0 ? 4093728 ? 0% /lib/init/rw
>>>
>>> I can't figure out which files are using all the storage. I know this sounds
>>> really dumb. ?Removed the other physical partitions from the du -s listing.
>>>
>>> $ sudo \du -sk
>>> 8072 ? ?/bin/
>>> 36644 ? /boot/
>>> 12980 ? /etc/
>>> 52 ? ? ?/home/
>>> 318052 ?/lib/
>>> 12460 ? /lib32/
>>> 58952 ? lost+found/
>>> 12 ? ? ?/mnt/
>>> 1156 ? ?/root/
>>> 10692 ? /sbin/
>>> 0 ? ? ? /sys/
>>> 16 ? ? ?/tmp/
>>> 3702072 /usr/
>>> 585264 ?/var/
>>>
>>> It is an Ubuntu Server x64 10.04.3 (up to date patched) system mainly used for
>>> file storage and running KVM VMs.
>>>
>>> * Disabled ureadahead and rebooted this morning hoping that was the issue. It
>>> wasn't.
>>> * Forced an fsck and rebooted this morning. The numbers above are post-reboot.
>>>
>>> Any ideas to find the disk sucking files?
>>
>>
>>
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