RE: [cobalt-users] The filesystem [/] is getting very full

["Liam Delahunty" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Priest/ISEE Multimedia Sent: 13 May 2003 04:35

>Total disk space:  726.04 MB
>Free disk space:  49.88 MB
>Percent Used:  93 %

df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              726M  572M  154M  79% /

>[root /usr]# du / -xh --max-depth 1
>12k     /lost+found
>10k     /nsr
>20M     /etc
>3.9M    /bin
>2.4M    /boot
>13M     /lib
>6.0k    /mnt
>67M     /root
>6.1M    /sbin
>565M    /usr
>80k     /dev
>1.0k    /vol
>678M    /

Mines broadly similar except /etc and /root which are much smaller. Perhaps
you can just clear out some junk and be okay?

What ever you do, don't let it go for too long. On our raq4, we had a
similar problem, and a username change caused the machine to fall over.

It turned out that the system had run out of space while trying to update
the password file - effectively deleting it! Luckily, no other data was
affected, but as the machine is hosted elsewhere we had to make arrangements
to visit the centre, and then try and fix it; obviously we couldn't log in
using serial (no users!), so we had to take the server away and make the
changes. In short - don't muck around, clear space now!

kind regards,
Liam