Problem with growing...

Hi everyone,
currently i am running a webserver for my friends and me.

The server has the following partition structure:

/ ext3 /dev/sda1
/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs
/home ext3 /dev/sda6

the problem is now that the mount point / ist growing and growing. the server is up (without reboot) 286 days 1 h 38 mins

will a reboot stop the growing? i looked up into the /var/log folder, but there are not so many files with much MB

i am a little bit confused. OS ist sarge 3.1

ciao
PM

 

Run this command from the / directory to find out what is filling up your disk:

Code:

du -s * | sort -nr > $HOME/space_report.txt

 

Hallo Falko,

Code:

2890392	var
2411324	home
925874	proc
696188	usr
661244	tmp
142000	root
77708	typo3Package
51776	lib
37580	typo3Package40
20044	etc
12108	backup
7112	boot
3452	bin
3344	sbin
96	dev
48	lost+found
12	media
4	srv
4	opt
4	mnt
4	initrd
0	vmlinuz
0	sys
0	space_report.txt
0	quota.user
0	quota.group
0	initrd.img
0	cdrom

The /home folder ist a separate mount point - but what about /var ?

Ciao
PM

 

Run

Code:

df -h

to find out about your partitions or have a look into /etc/fstab.

 

Hi Falko,

i run the command the following output was produced:

Code:

Dateisystem          Größe Benut  Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sda1             6,5G  4,5G  1,7G  74% /
tmpfs                 760M     0  760M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6             138G  2,4G  129G   2% /home

So as you can see, the problem ist sda1. currently running ispconfig on this server.

CIao
PM

 

Check your /var directory for large files (maybe log files, etc.).

 

Hello Falko,


i fould a folder called /var/log/mysql i have more than 20 files bigger then 100 mb. they are named mysql-bin.000382 aso... mysql-bin.000389 aso

can i delete them?

Cheers
PM

 

Do you use MySQL replication? Then you shouldn't delete them!