-
hda1 full - how come? Help!
Last year August, I installed Knoppix on my HDD. Great! Disk size is 2.8 GB, and was about 70% full (if I remember it correctly).
All this time, I used it as a local web server with the webroot on the hda6 partition. I put my php files on this partition. Free space: 6GB on an 8 GB hdd.
It was great, until hda1 went full this week! Less than a few K free space! Of course, sessions can't be written anymore, etc. How could this happen? I installed nothing after the initial install! BTW, the tmp dir is quite tidy.
My question is: what kind of files could have been written on the hdd? And how do I clean up the disk, 'cause I cannot detect anything strange on the hdd. PROC is large as well, how do I purge this? And how can I prevent this for the future?
TIA,
Royston
-
Senior Member
registered user
Is /var/log taking up alot of space?
du -ch /var/log
You can get rid of alot of files in there. For example you probably do not need any logs that end w/ 0 or .gz.
For example I have these logs:
kern.log
kern.log.0
kern.log.1.gz
It would be perfectly fine to remove kern.log.0 & kern.log.1.gz
-
Well, this took care of 3 MB of space... at least that is better than nothing. However, I have still 1 GB or so to go...
Thanx anyway for your answer. But where did the other gigabyte of rubbish come from? And, for instance, how do I delete the /proc/ directory?
Royston
-
Senior Member
registered user
Not sure if I was clear on this or not. You can delete ALL old logs in /var/log.
/proc is a dynamicly generated file system don't try to delete it. Use cron to automatically delete those old logs for you.
Similar Threads
-
By PhilQ in forum General Support
Replies: 6
Last Post: 01-07-2005, 12:43 AM
-
By Skaster in forum General Support
Replies: 6
Last Post: 01-05-2005, 09:04 PM
-
By jimandjeanette in forum The Lounge
Replies: 1
Last Post: 07-05-2004, 02:50 PM
-
By A. Jorge Garcia in forum General Support
Replies: 2
Last Post: 07-04-2004, 04:29 AM
-
By A. Jorge Garcia in forum Hdd Install / Debian / Apt
Replies: 2
Last Post: 07-04-2004, 04:26 AM
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
Dell Optiplex 5060 SFF 8th Gen Core i7 3.2GHZ 16GB 512GB Win 11 Pro
$249.00
Lenovo IdeaCentre 3 07IRB8 Desktop Intel Core i5-13400 16GB 512GB SSD W11H
$429.99
Intel - Core i9-13900K 13th Gen 24 cores 8 P-cores + 16 E-cores 36M Cache, 3 ...
$689.99
Intel - Core i7-13700K 13th Gen 16 cores 8 P-cores + 8 E-cores 30M Cache, 3.4...
$489.99
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - 16-Thread 4.2 GHz (5.0 GHz Max Boost) Socket A...
$339.95
Apple Mac Pro Processor Tray 5,1 2010 2012 2.4ghz 8 core
$79.99
Intel - Core i9-12900K Desktop Processor 16 (8P+8E) Cores up to 5.2 GHz Unloc...
$619.99
Intel Core i5-6500T SR2L8 2.50GHz Desktop Processor Socket 1151 Quad Core CPU
$22.99
Dell optiplex 7050 Intel core I7-7700 3.6 GHz 8 GB ram No HDD/No OS
$89.99
Dell 9020 Optiplex Micro-Intel Core i5 - 1TB SSD 8GB RAM Window 11
$129.49