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# 1  
Old 05-31-2012
MySQL ROOT fs is full but no files consumed more space
one our linux machine root fs usage shows 90% but inode use %

i sarched more then 10 MB files and found few with less mb,s

any once help to solve this


Code:
[kk787049@coen ~]$ df -h /
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3     3.9G  3.3G  409M  90% /
[kk787049@coen ~]$ df -i /
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3    1048576   62966  985610    7% /
[kk787049@coen ~]$

# 2  
Old 06-04-2012
Tools let's find it out ...
- login as root ;

- try :
Code:
# find /* -xdev -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec du -s {} \;

this should give you a report of disk usage per directory ;


HTH


good luck, and success !


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alexandre botao
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# 3  
Old 06-05-2012
Code:
7.6M    /bin
15M     /boot
212K    /dev
53M     /etc
235M    /lib
18M     /lib64
16K     /lost+found
8.0K    /media
8.0K    /misc
8.0K    /mnt
0       /proc
412K    /root
54M     /sbin
8.0K    /selinux
16K     /share
8.0K    /srv
0       /sys
784K    /tmp
1.7G    /usr
4.0K    /webapp

i ran that cmd and found nothing used much as root is 4 G confgiured
# 4  
Old 06-05-2012
If you tried deleting files that were in use to free up space, then they still exist and won't truly be deleted until the process holding them open is killed or you reboot the system.
# 5  
Old 06-11-2012
Hammer & Screwdriver let's not forget the dots ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by venikathir
Code:
7.6M    /bin
15M     /boot
212K    /dev
53M     /etc
235M    /lib
18M     /lib64
16K     /lost+found
8.0K    /media
8.0K    /misc
8.0K    /mnt
0       /proc
412K    /root
54M     /sbin
8.0K    /selinux
16K     /share
8.0K    /srv
0       /sys
784K    /tmp
1.7G    /usr
4.0K    /webapp

i ran that cmd and found nothing used much as root is 4 G confgiured
- you see ... there may be directories whose name begin with "." - which will not be found by the command I suggested ;

- try :
Code:
ls -aF /

to see if there are any such directories ...

ok ?

HTH
# 6  
Old 06-11-2012
Can you reboot the computer? This will clear any files which have been deleted while they were still open by a process.

Also check the root directory itself visually and look for rogue large files:
ls -ald /* | more
Last edited by methyl; 06-11-2012 at 07:46 PM..
# 7  
Old 06-15-2012
Is that the total size of the partition? I only see 4 GB allocated for the total slice. I am just wondering what kind of server is deployed.
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