Disk Space Usage?

[smkied]

Hello,

My VPS is going a bit crazy it seems... or something??

Basically, I *know* I have about 8GB of files on there, and sometimes that's what it shows. However, sometimes it just randomly starts to fill up.... all the way up to like 15 or 18GB.... I have no idea how, why, or with what. Then, after a while it will go down, and sometimes when I reboot it, it will go right back down to 8GB again.

The system statistics in Plesk aren't really telling me much. Is there any way to get a very very VERY detailed view of how much webspace is being used by each directory on my server or something? I need to find these randomly growing files and remove them.

Help me please! Thanks!

 

[nullsystems]

This problems seems to be with log files.
How often does this happen, daily, weekly or monthly?

All you need to do is look into your STATISTICS page of your Desktop in PLESK.

It will tell you which part of your disc is full.

Usually, its /usr/local/psa.

You can also run 'df' from shell.

Simply change your log rotation for your domains, by doing a GROUP ACTION from the DOMAIN page on all your domains. And by changing the Log rotation from the Server page in PLESK.

I hope this helps.

 

[smkied]

Hello,

All that Plesk tells me is the total disk usage of the directories:

/usr/local/psa
/var/lib/mysql
/var/www/vhosts
/var/qmail/mailnames
/var/named/run-root

It doesn't actually tell me how much each of those directories is using.

When I run "df" in shell, it also only tells me the total usage of my hard drive. I'd really like to be able to somehow figure out how much usage there is by directory.

I have a suspicion that it's not log files because the increase happens very rapidly and then sticks around for a long time. Like, it will go form 8GB to 15GB within sometimes 30 minutes.... and then it will stop at that.

Might this have something to do with backup files lingering around somewhere? See all this is just speculation until I can find a way to get a detailed breakdown of all of my disk usage on the server.

Please advise. Thanks!

 

[smkied]

Alright, so this is where I am at now.

I ran the command "du -sh directory" on each directory 1 by 1 and finally was able to narrow down where all that webspace went!

The stats are as follows:

/usr/local/psa --- 513MB
/var/lib/mysql --- 49MB
/var/www/vhosts --- 5.9GB
/var/qmail/mailnames --- 463MB
/var/named/run-root --- 260MB

That's all fine, but here is the extra usage that isn't proper:

/var/lib/psa/dumps/tmp/ --- 8.2GB

So obviously there are some temporary files in there or something.

My main question here is: where are these files coming from, and how do I stop them from being created? I tried removing everything inside that tmp directory but there are directories and sub directories and it won't let me remove directories that have stuff in them (or something).

What would you suggest that I do now?