Full disk

[Matthew Gillen]

On 06/14/2010 02:00 PM, scottmarydavidsam-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I've got two almost identical Linux systems (they're running VMWare ESX but
> for the purpose of this discussion, I need Linux help). Both systems have
> 5GB root partitions with separate /var/log and /vmfs (the special volumes
> where virtual machines are stored) partitions. One of the systems has a 100%
> in use root volume.Using the command:
> find / -mount -size +10240000c -exec du -h {} \; | less
> I've found eleven files, nothing larger than 75M.
> 
> I suspect there are a butt load of small (log?) or hidden files accumulating
> somewhere but I'm not sure how to find them. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.

This thread from last Nov. might be helpful:
 http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-November/034551.html

(try "lsof | grep deleted")

Matt