Finding large files

[neil]

Hi,

I've having problems with my server at the moment as the hard drive is constantly full. 1 Gb of hard drive space is being taken every day and this does not count log files!

The hard drive on the server is 60Gb, the total files for the sites is less than 15Gb including log files and all the emails. Is there anyway I can get a list of the largest files on the server and what size they are?

Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Neil

 

[Mr. Pink]

Hi,

try

find / -size +102400k -exec du -hs {} \;

to find anything above 100mb ...

Regards,

Pink

 

[neil]

Thanks Pink,

My maillog is 28Gb which is obviously taking up a huge chunk of the hard drive space.

It is safe for me to simply delete the maillog?

Thanks
Neil

 

[sammykona]

instead of deleting, I usually do:

cat>/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog [hit enter]

then hit Control D

That will reset it to zero

Sam

Originally posted by neil
Thanks Pink,

My maillog is 28Gb which is obviously taking up a huge chunk of the hard drive space.

It is safe for me to simply delete the maillog?

Thanks
Neil

 

[CBiLL]

maillog shouldn't even get that big unless your log rotate somehow got disabled or not working anymore ..

Plesk already rotates and process maillog by default so something is wrong with your log rotate.

Bill