Re: [cobalt-users] Root volume too full

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:25:30 +0100
> From: Tomas Garcia Ferrari <tgf@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> I'd noticed on my RaQ4 this use of the disk:
> > [admin admin]$ df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/md1              726M  623M  103M  86% /
> > /dev/md3              194M   12M  182M   6% /var
> > /dev/md4               34G  154M   34G   0% /home
> 
> and checking the content of the root directory, I found this:
> > [admin admin]$ ls -l /
> > total 649
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Nov 18 17:55 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Oct 11 04:56 boot

[ snip ]

> > drwxr-xr-x  18 root     root         1024 Oct 11 05:16 var
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       593774 Jun 28  2000 vmlinux.gz

You'll find disk usage statistics by using the "du" command.
Read the man page for more info.

Hint #1: Make sure that there aren't a bunch of files in /tmp
Hint #2: Most of that space will be used by your /usr directory

> Is normal to have a 'vmlinux.gz' file at the root level? Could
> that mean that this server had been hacked? Where should I look
> to reduce the use of '/'...?

That's your kernel.  Leave it alone unless you know what you're
doing.  Missteps result in unbootable machines, thanks to Linux's
crappy boot loader.  (Sorry... hardcoded CHS values for one's
kernel are IMHO unacceptable.)

> Thanks & regards,
> Tomás


Eddy

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