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doalwa
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 Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: Harddisc is suddenly full...HELP! |
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Hi,
I ran into a strange problem this morning. I tried to start opera and was wondering what took it so long to start up. So I opened an xterm, issued the command "opera" from there and was amazed that according to opera my harddisc was full.
So I issued the command "df -h" which showed the following:
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gentoo / # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 56G 55G 0 100% /
udev 1013M 276K 1013M 1% /dev
cachedir 56G 55G 0 100% /lib/splash/cache
/dev/sda4 19G 7.9G 12G 42% /xp
/dev/hda1 276G 84G 178G 32% /data
shm 1013M 0 1013M 0% /dev/shm
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So, according to df, my root partition /dev/sda3 is completely filled up with 56 gigs of data...but I'm completely clueless as to what could have filled up my harddisc..I store all my data on /dev/hda1, a 300 gig Maxtor HD which also houses the /opt filesystem.
Is there a way to find out which directories are responsible for filling up my harddisc?
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doalwa
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Thanks alot for your quick reply!
I issued the command "du -msh /*/ , this is the output:
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gentoo / # du -msh /*/
7.9M /bin/
4.0K /boot/
8.0K /brenner/
84G /data/
276K /dev/
8.0K /dvd/
64M /etc/
51G /firewire/
8.0K /floppy/
1.1G /home/
12M /lib/
16K /lost+found/
4.0K /media/
12K /mnt/
19G /opt/
899M /proc/
2.2M /root/
9.4M /sbin/
0 /sys/
64K /tmp/
3.0G /usr/
306M /var/
7.8G /xp/
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I'm still clueless, to be honest  The biggest directory /data resides on the Maxtor 300 Gig HD, the directory /firewire is a mount point for my external 250 Gig Maxtor OneTouch HD. I backup all of /data to this external harddisc using rdiff-backup and cron.
/opt is symlinked to /data/opt , so those 19Gigs only affect the 300 Gig Maxtor HD.
Apart from that, there's really nothing much on the harddisc /dev/sda...but it still shows me that 56 Gigs of space have been somehow eaten up.
This line from the output of df -h irritates me, though:
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cachedir 56G 55G 0 100% /lib/splash/cache
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I'm using splashutils for a nice framebuffer background image..does anybody know if it's normal that this so called cachedir also shows a size of 56 gig?
TIA,
Dominik
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Looking at that, you have 51 GB in /firewire.
I know you say this an external box, but are you sure you mounted it before you copied the files over?
According to df there is nothing that uses a mountpoint of /firewire.
I am of course assuming the df and the du were done at a similar time 
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| It indeed seems you forgot to mount the extrenal hd on /firewire |
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doalwa
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Oh My Goodness, both of you were right, /dev/sdb1, which represents my external firewire disc, was indeed NOT mounted, I can't believe it!
The strange thing is, according to /etc/fstab
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# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda4 /xp ntfs ro,user,auto 0 0
/dev/hdc /brenner iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /dvd iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /data ext3 auto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /firewire ext3 auto,rw 0 0
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/dev/sdb1 should have been mounted at boot time...but it seems like it didn't...hm..well, I simply erased the contents of /firewire, mounted the external disc with mount /dev/hdb1 , now everything is back to normal again!
Thanks alot for your help, you really saved my day
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