sda1 is Full

[mmcbee]

I am no Rocket Scientist when it comes to this stuff so any help is appreciated.

My /dev/sda1 is full. My problem is I do not know what Directories belong to sda1, so I cannot figure out how to clean it up.

Note: I did clear out /tmp however that did not help any.

Could someone help a dummy out?

Thank you

Michael

 

[de_he]

Hello,

you can view via "mount" which directories are on that partition.

Let's have a look on my system f.e.

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)

Helpful is the command "du" - with it's help you can find the directories consuming the space.

 

[atomicturtle]

An addition there:

du -h --max-depth=1

That will just display the usage of each directory one level deep, rather than display all the directories under it.

 

[mmcbee]

I must be dense.

When I df I get

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 521748 521672 0 100% /

when I do du or du -h --max-depth=1 /dev/sda1

all I get is
# du -h --max-depth=1 /dev/sda1
0 /dev/sda1

Which is not really telling us anything....or is it?

Thanks

Mike

 

[atomicturtle]

You give it the path to the dir, not the device, or just run it from the dir. And thats a terrible file system layout there. 500M on / will cause problems for anyone.

 

[mmcbee]

Its the way 1and1 setup the server some 2 years back and I did not know any better

MIke

 

[mmcbee]

ok
FYI this is a psa v8.1.0_build81061129.23 os_FedoraCore 2
# du -h --max-depth=1 /
48K /lost+found
1.1G /usr
3.5G /var
5.4G /home
58M /tmp
902M /proc
17M /boot
4.9M /bin
428K /dev
33M /etc
286M /lib
8.0K /mnt
85M /root
9.2M /sbin
0 /sys
4.0K /selinux
4.0K /initrd
28K /opt
4.0K /command
4.0K /service
12G /

 

[atomicturtle]

I wrote a script to fix that:

http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/Joomla/content/view/139/29/

 

[mmcbee]

Will the script work with

Plesk version psa v8.1.0_build81061129.23 os_FedoraCore 2
Operating system Linux 2.6.9-041221
CPU GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz

What are the pitfalls or using the script. The one thing I noticed in the instuctions is "Back up any files you don't want overwritten and note the new root password that will be created."

For instance I have a number of YUM updates installed

Mike

 

[atomicturtle]

It rebuilds the box completely, you would need to back up whatever files you wanted to keep.