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http://ubuntuforums.org – In short: / was completely filled up after a nightly run of a JAVA algorithm. I am sure that I had more then 4GB on root the same evenying (I accidentialy checked with df). I killed the process and freed some space and then found a discrepancy between df and du. du shows 16GB on root and df claims 7GB. I attached a disk space analyser screenshot which shows 7.8 GB. I cannot find the files which were writen over night and which are jamming the root disk. Any help appreciated. Reinhard Ubuntu 12.10 quantal Linux lati 3.5.0-25-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 25 18:26:58 UTC 2013 x8 (Hardware)

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Hi, all:

In fact, I'm continuing a closed topic, which can be found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12175678

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Code: pei@pei-GA-870A-UD3:/dev$ ls -l sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Aug 15 17:57 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  1 Aug 15 17:55 sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  2 Aug 15 17:57 sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  5 Aug 15 17:55 sda5 brw-rw

I am in Ubuntu 10.04.

When I install the software updates with "Update Manager", there is a pop up dialog which tells me "The volume "boot" has only 0 byte disk space remaining"

My current kernal in use is:

myname:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-37-generic

The content of boot folder is:

myname:~$ ls -lah /boot total 217M drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 3.0K 2012-01-13 15:18 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K 2012-01

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong section to post this in.

Today I started getting warning messages about the filesystem root running out of space.

Sizes of file 29 weeks 6 days ago

Hello! I created two files

1) # dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.image bs=1M seek=30000 count=1 2) # truncate -s 30G disk.image1

# ls -lh disk* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 30G Oct 26 14:27 disk.image -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 30G Oct 26 14:27 disk.image1

# du -h disk* 1.0M disk.image 0 disk.image1

Why is shows that size of disk* files is 30 MB but du shows other value?

Keep getting that message of root having only so much space left and it says that I should remove some programs. To get some space back on root, what should I remove? And how?

I cannot find the root directory in the disk program that comes up when I click on the investigate button. I am wondering if it is the extra kernals that are there.

Mount /app on a new DISK 25 weeks 3 days ago

Hi folks,

because of disk space problem my root is almost full..The root is mounted on rpool and i want to move /app on a new disk, is that possible without compromising any link?How can i do that? I use solaris 10

Thank you in advance,

Matt

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I'm running a Centos VM in VMWare Fusion 5.x. The VM is an Aspera file transfer server and the files being sent are stored on the mounted disk. I've allocated 50 GB for the VM disk and shared another volume from the host (/mnt/hgfs/Aspera). It looks like the file transfers are taking up space on the root volume and Centos is complaining that it's out of space.

You will find here how to discover which directory or file is using your disk space, and therefore where makes more sence to start erasing files.

Free space in my root partition is continually reducing without any apparent reason. It 'll reduce 2 to 20 MiB every reboot and I don't know why. /var is on a separate partition so logs aren't the ones jamming up.