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We've been working to clean up some space in our /opt mount. A large culprit of space consumption was log files for some processes we run (to the tune of 2 to 12 GB each). We've cleaned these up by ...

Today I had a name-server stop resolving DNS due to the /var directory being full from the named.run cache build up. I tried removing all the files using: rm -rf name* However, although running ls ...

I have noticed that my hard drive space is being consumed by a long running process, but I was not able to find the file(s) that are consuming the space. I suspect the files are temporary files, using ...

I have a small Intel NUC with a 30GB drive. My problem is that this drive is full but cannot find the cause of it. df reporting the following Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ...

I deleted a file about 200 GB big, but it still seems as the space is reserved for some reason.  I tried clearing it with a bunch of commands I found, but nothing worked for me (for files being kept ...

I have a problem that my disk is filling up but I cant find the files that fill it. When I run df -h I get: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 53G 51G 2.0G 97% / ...

One of our systems has a growing log file (we will be addressing) but currently the application owner will delete the file with rm then wait for the next maintenance window to reboot. I find myself ...

So df is telling me that I'm using 49/59G, so I set out to find my space. $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 59G 49G 7.9G 86% / none 4.0K 0 ...

I have just asked in an interview that if someone mistakenly deletes apache logfile from /var/log/apache/access.log while it's being written, can you recover it? After my answer interviewer said that ...

I am having this strange problem of my system running out of space constantly. Just yesterday I cleaned up near 15GB of space and today I see it is out of space. I really don't get it. I know some ...

So, the thing is, if your system is totally block by a huge file, and there isn't anything you know you can delete, all those tutorials showing shiny tools to manage filesystem aren't all that useful. ...

What is the best practice to avoid this case Example, filebeat 5098 5128 root 3r REG 253,1 31035908096 657022 /var/log/aaa/aaa.access.log.1 (deleted) There is a ...

How can my 6 TB hdd display as full while there's 3,4 TB of files on there? It says 0 bytes available for some reason.

I have linux server which has started filling up the root disk to 100% in the last few days. df -h shows 100% and any file write attempts fail stating disk is full. du -sh of the drives contents show ...