Question
Cannot find what is filling up disk space /dev/vda1 is 100% full
- Posted August 14, 2014
Here is what I have:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 40G 38G 0 100% /
However, I cannot find what is using the space up with du -sh *
Any ideas how to find what is using up all that space?
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outside of other answers here what I did was:
navigate through subfolders with ncdu and finding large folders. Among them one can delete:
/var/logs
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158510 // /var/logs/journal
http://askubuntu.com/questions/100004/how-can-i-free-space-from-a-massive-39-5gb-var-log-folder // other already archived (GZ-ipped) files;
and compress .git folders of projects by shrinking them with this command: git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5613345/how-to-shrink-the-git-folder
outside of other answers here what I did was:
navigate through subfolders with ncdu and finding large folders. Among them one can delete:
/var/logs
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158510 // /var/logs/journal
http://askubuntu.com/questions/100004/how-can-i-free-space-from-a-massive-39-5gb-var-log-folder // other already archived (GZ-ipped) files;
and compress .git folders of projects by shrinking them with this command: git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5613345/how-to-shrink-the-git-folder
Googled and found this question which had the same problem.
@TonyTsang That command helped me find what it was
Apparently it was a hidden log folder set by pm2.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
Another option that might help you find out what is using up space is ncdu Install it with:
sudo apt-get install ncdu
If you still can’t find anything, try running:
lsof / | grep deleted
Sometimes if a file is deleted while it is opened by a process, it will not actually free up the disk space until the process is ended. This command will show if there are any files in that state.
@mslinn thanks it really worked for me and let me find which is using up my space till now. in my case it was “./Trash-0000”
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In response to
“And do du -h [dir] for each of them”
du -h --max-depth=1 will achieve this much quicker without having go into each folder. look for the once that looks suspicious then perform the same max depth in that folder.
@josualeonard Hello, I ve sent a request as well to them, and similar to fix it your self with those links …
I don’t think I have as much knowledge as you do, can you explain to me in a bit more detail how to solve this ?
Problem is the same :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 30G 28G 0 100% /
I am not quite sure what you mean by cd / ect… ect… It was all working fine until yesterday. Thanks for your help !!
After sending a support ticket about this issue, they point me to a direction of solving it myself.
For me there’s actually a log file that stacked up until the disk is full. Here’s how I solve it: I go to root dir:
cd /list dirs and files:lsAnd dodu -h [dir]for each of them When you see something suspicious you go inside that dir, or see from the du result. For me it’s adu -h homeWhen I trace, it points me to my laravel app storage/logs.On a sidenote, on my issue here is caused by job queue php artisan. And on those job queue there’s an error and it keeps logging and repeating, the php process also hogging the cpu. This solved me two issues altogether.
There you go. I hope it helps.
After sending a support ticket about this issue, they point me to a direction of solving it myself.
For me there’s actually a log file that stacked up until the disk is full. Here’s how I solve it: I go to root dir:
cd /list dirs and files:lsAnd dodu -h [dir]for each of them When you see something suspicious you go inside that dir, or see from the du result. For me it’s adu -h homeWhen I trace, it points me to my laravel app storage/logs.On a sidenote, on my issue here is caused by job queue php artisan. And on those job queue there’s an error and it keeps logging and repeating, the php process also hogging the cpu. This solved me two issues altogether.
There you go. I hope it helps.
Same issue here!