/ (root) partition full
Steven Ringwald
asric at asric.com
Fri Jan 13 14:18:00 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:04 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
> Hi, Anyone
> Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box.
> (My wife is paranoid that way.) KDiskFree showed my root partition a
> bit over 50% full. Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago,
> it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit. The
> file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if
> that makes a difference. Has anyone run into this? Is there a tool I
> can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify
> the cause? I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that
> only recovered about 350 mB; I'm still missing some 5 gig.
You might want to try booting off the rescue CD, and running
fsck.reiserfs on the partition, just to make sure that it isn't in a
weird state. I have had funny things like that happen myself, where it
would just start gobbling space up, and I fixed it by repairing the
filesystem.
YMMV.
Cheers!
Steve
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