File system full

[soltroy]

How do I go about getting this alleviated when I can't dump anything in my trash. I am extremely new to using UNIX in general and have been delegated the lovely task of fixing this server when I don't know anything about it. I am trying to learn on the fly. My company doesn't have any tech support on this server either. Could someone please help me out here.

 

[bluedevils]

trash? there is no trash bin in unix AFAIK.

for a full file system I usually do a "du -kad|sort -rn|more" within the mount point that is full

This should tell you your worst offending file or directory

 

[sboronski]

A simpler approach might be:

df -k -- and look for a filesystem at 100%

cd directoryname -- to directory full

du -s * -- lists the size (in blocks) of each directory and then :


cd dirname --- to biggest

ls -ltr (full listing date sorted in reverse shows most recent at the bottom)

You then have to decide whether to simply remove the file or truncate it.

rm filename -- removes the file

cp /dev/null filename --- truncates the file

if you want you can:

tail -100 filename > filename.tmp --- create a new file with the last 100 lines before rm'ing the file.

and repeat until you find the offending file, chances are you will find a log file as the culprit.

Regards

Steve B.