/ (root) partition full (now dead)
Gregory Pittman
gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Jan 16 18:46:17 UTC 2006
Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
> 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.
>> Cheers,
>> Gordon Keehn
>>
> Thanks, for your replies, everyone. Briefly, I did update the
> kernel regularly, but only kept the most recent two. When I install a
> new kernel RPM, I remove the oldest. I tried the scripts for
> identifying the offending file/directory (special thanks to those
> folks; I really learned something from their offerings) but didn't
> find anything that looked like a smoking gun. Which, by elimination,
> leaves us with a corrupted filesystem. fsck.reiserfs produced lots of
> nastygrammes and eventually left me with a system which died early in
> the boot process.
> Since I have found other annoying glitches with Fedora (notably
> it's support for older hardware like my Crystal sound chipset), I
> reloaded the box with SuSE 10.0. I know SuSE also has its quirks
> (like YAST) but it has all the software and tools I need, AND it
> recognises my sound "card".
One thing I think it tells you is something about how to divide your
distro onto different partitions. It can be very hard to track down a
problem like this with your whole distro on one partition, and that
doesn't matter if it's FC or Suse.
Greg
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