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To find the biggest files automatically: du -a -x / > /DataVolume/foo -a == list all files -x == only look at one filesystem sort -n -r /DataVolume/foo > /DataVolume/bar Sent from my iPad On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote: > I've got a WD MyBook at work. I am surprised that /DataVolume is not > RAID, but based on my experience, MyBook uses Busybox. I added some > software from optware. In any case, you will need to manually drill down > the root files system /dev/md1 and try to find out where the larger > files are and manually delete them. After you locate the culprits, you > might want to check out optware for some of the commands that BusyBox is > missing (or brain dead). You might find that MyBook Live is not rotating > the logs. > > On 02/17/2012 07:34 PM, Doug wrote: >> I bought a MyBookLive for the family media collection. I like that >> they are using open source software on the device. I am able to ssh >> over there and reboot for example when that is needed. >> >> I got a message that a file was not able to be written. So I ran this command: >> >> MyBookLive:~# df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/md1 1.9G 1.9G 0 100% / >> tmpfs 50M 0 50M 0% /lib/init/rw >> udev 10M 6.7M 3.4M 67% /dev >> tmpfs 50M 0 50M 0% /dev/shm >> tmpfs 50M 2.7M 48M 6% /tmp >> ramlog-tmpfs 1.9G 1.9G 0 100% /var/log >> /dev/sda4 924G 531G 393G 58% /DataVolume >> >> 100%, not a good sign. Where are the problems? >> >> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var >> 1.5G var >> >> Let's look in there: >> >> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var/* >> 4.0K var/backups >> 1.3M var/cache >> 15M var/lib >> 52K var/local >> 0 var/lock >> 946M var/log >> 4.0K var/log.hdd >> 4.0K var/mail >> 4.0K var/opt >> 0 var/run >> 12K var/spool >> 0 var/tmp >> 0 var/twonkymedia >> 542M var/www >> >> >> >> MyBookLive:/# du -sh --si var/* >> 4.1k var/backups >> 1.4M var/cache >> 15M var/lib >> 54k var/local >> 0 var/lock >> 992M var/log >> 4.1k var/log.hdd >> 4.1k var/mail >> 4.1k var/opt >> 0 var/run >> 13k var/spool >> 0 var/tmp >> 0 var/twonkymedia >> 568M var/www >> >> I am not seeing it (the --si follows symbolic links). >> >> MyBookLive:/var# ls -lah >> total 48K >> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 . >> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4.0K Dec 31 19:17 .. >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb 17 2012 backups >> drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 cache >> drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 lib >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 local >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 14 2011 lock -> /tmp >> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Dec 31 19:03 log >> drwxrwxrw- 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 log.hdd >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 mail >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 opt >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 14 2011 run -> /tmp >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 spool >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 14 2011 tmp -> /tmp >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 14 2011 twonkymedia -> >> /CacheVolume/twonkymedia >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 14 2011 www >> >> How should I be looking for who is eating up all the disk space? Is >> there a general command to limit cache or logs? I guess I am not much >> of a sys admin. >> > > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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