Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-10 Thread S.Allen
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:34:56PM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Just to mention a useful ncurses tool to show and track space usage : > ncdu. Cool, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 15:56, Lisi wrote: On Monday 09 May 2011 10:57:55 Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. This is th

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le lundi 09 mai, Michiel Piscaer écrivit : > Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef: > >What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a > >general question that was asked in my class of operating systems > >and nobody had an answer. > > > >Thanks, > > > >On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread godo
On 2011-05-09 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. Thanks, Hi, I'm not expert at all, but I will first check which directory is to large. For exam

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Lisi
On Monday 09 May 2011 10:57:55 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: > > What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a > > general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and > > nobody had an answer. > > This is the only full solutio

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Yeah, good idea. Answering questions at 5am before coffee is contraindicated. :) --b On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:59:40AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved > >space. Yo

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:59:40AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: >Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved >space. You can check this using the df command. If your filesystems start >with /dev/mapper, then you are using LVM. You can check for free space >

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. This is the only full solution: sudo rm -rf / -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Daniel Linux wrote: Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues. Depending on the size of the file system to start with, you cold use find as follows to locate larger files for consideration. # find /home -size +10M -ls Generally, larger files once identified can gi

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lisi, Lisi wrote: On Monday 09 May 2011 09:48:44 Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. I currently have this problem on two of my disks. As I see it,

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/9/2011 1:58 AM, Michiel Piscaer wrote: Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef: Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what filesystem is almost full. What should I do? du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit the output. With # du -h --

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 9 May 2011 04:40:56 -0400 Daniel Linux wrote: Hello Daniel, > Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what > filesystem is almost full. What should I do? Your question is still too vague to give sensible answers to. Some options; 1) Buy a new computer. 2) Buy a new

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Lisi
On Monday 09 May 2011 07:58:22 Michiel Piscaer wrote: > With # du -h --max-depth=1 you can find what directory is taking all of > the space. Next is take the right action, by emtying / deleting the > file, or moving the directory to an new disk. Thanks, Michiel. I had correctly selected the larg

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Michiel Piscaer
Op 9-5-2011 10:48, Daniel Linux schreef: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. Thanks, On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace > wr

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Depends. Best case, you built your system using LVM and have reserved space. You can check this using the df command. If your filesystems start with /dev/mapper, then you are using LVM. You can check for free space using the vgdisplay command (as root): # vgdisplay ...Snip... Alloc PE / Size

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Grace
On 09/05/11 09:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. It all depends on context, you'll need to add a little more detail. For instance: As an administra

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Lisi
On Monday 09 May 2011 09:48:44 Daniel Linux wrote: > What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general > question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an > answer. I currently have this problem on two of my disks. As I see it, I have 3 realistic

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
You look for the biggest file. (I feel a GOML moment approaching.) On 05/09/2011 03:48 AM, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. Thanks, On Mon, May 9, 2

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Daniel Linux
What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. Thanks, On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Tom Grace wrote: > On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote: > >> Yes, I need generic steps. After run

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Grace
On 09/05/11 09:40, Daniel Linux wrote: Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what filesystem is almost full. What should I do? du -h /fullfilesystem is a good start, possibly with --max-depth to limit the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Daniel Linux
Yes, I need generic steps. After running df -h I know what filesystem is almost full. What should I do? Thanks, DA On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/09/2011 03:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issue

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/09/2011 03:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues. Too generic. Not enough information. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corru