[ale] HELP - Out of Storage on /

[James Sumners]

`find / -type f -size +200M 2>/dev/null`

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:29, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> 20GB partition mounted on /.
> df is reporting 100% used on /.
> If I add up all the reported storage, only 4.7GB is used.
>
>
> $ \df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             19501440  19497112      4328 100% /
> none                   4088752       348   4088404   1% /dev
> none                   4093728         0   4093728   0% /dev/shm
> none                   4093728       600 4093128   1% /var/run
> none                   4093728         0   4093728   0% /var/lock
> none                   4093728         0   4093728   0% /lib/init/rw
>
> I can't figure out which files are using all the storage. I know this sounds
> really dumb.  Removed the other physical partitions from the du -s listing.
>
> $ sudo \du -sk
> 8072    /bin/
> 36644   /boot/
> 12980   /etc/
> 52      /home/
> 318052  /lib/
> 12460   /lib32/
> 58952   lost+found/
> 12      /mnt/
> 1156    /root/
> 10692   /sbin/
> 0       /sys/
> 16      /tmp/
> 3702072 /usr/
> 585264  /var/
>
> It is an Ubuntu Server x64 10.04.3 (up to date patched) system mainly used for
> file storage and running KVM VMs.
>
> * Disabled ureadahead and rebooted this morning hoping that was the issue. It
> wasn't.
> * Forced an fsck and rebooted this morning. The numbers above are post-reboot.
>
> Any ideas to find the disk sucking files?




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