[nflug] uhoh

[eric]

ok this seems strange "/proc" is 775M

any clues?

Mark Musone wrote:

>It is taking so long because "*" in / will also match and count the files in
>/home,/tmp,/usr, and /var.
>
>Manually put in the directory names, omitting those directories that are on
>other disks:
>
>In the following case of my / directory:
>-bash-2.05b# ls
>bin  boot  dev  etc  home  initrd  lib  local  lost+found  mnt  mnt2  proc
>root  sbin  tftpboot  tmp  usr  var
>
>
>"du -sk bin boot etc initrd lib local mnt mnt2 root sbin"
>
>It'd be a lot faster.
>
>Same thing with "find", issue the -xdev option to stay in just the /
>filesystem
>
>"find / -xdev -size +100K"   ...etc..
>
>
>-Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
>eric
>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:21 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: [nflug] uhoh
>
>the commands are working so incredibly slow I decieded to delete some
>"safe stuff" I have a webmin directory in /root that has been their all
>along so I started to get rid of some files and the commands "find" "du"
>are still moving like snails, I tried du -s * from the / dir ...it had
>been running for a half hour so I zapped it with ctrl z and tried to
>delete some more stuff out the webmin dir.  So, I have a new question:
>could something on the system be creating a file or files constantly or
>can the 251M that was alotted over spill on the / dir and I have to
>delete down to 251M like memory is waiting to write to the hard drive?  
>I slap my hands everytime I think I want to just restart the server
>typical windows brainwashing.
>
>Thanks,
>Eric
>
>Darin Perusich wrote:
>
>  
>
>>or it could be /root.
>>
>>David J. Andruczyk wrote:
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>cd / ; du -s *
>>>
>>>Odds are it's /lib/modules filled up if you have several kernels
>>>installed..
>>>
>>>
>>>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>File system            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>/dev/hdc3             251M  251M     0 100% /
>>>>tmpfs                 758M  4.0K  758M   1% /dev/shm
>>>>/dev/hdc8             101G   12G   85G  12% /home
>>>>/dev/hdc7             358M  8.1M  331M   3% /tmp
>>>>/dev/hdc4             4.6G  516M  3.9G  12% /usr
>>>>/dev/hdc5             2.8G  1.6G  1.2G  58% /var
>>>>
>>>>My / directory is stuffed, I already have /var/logs linked into a
>>>>/home dir
>>>>how do I take out the trash sort of speak, I guess I should really
>>>>know what the culprit file or files that caused the fill up as well 
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again,
>>>>eric
>>>>
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