Cannot find what is filling up disk space /dev/vda1 is 100% full

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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?

Mike · Answer

How I solved it: Use Filezilla, search for file, Filesize greater “100000000” (shows files larger than 100 MB). Found the file ibtmp1 with 48 GB. Solved it with: ibtmp1 https://stackoverflow.com/q/41216630/1066234 and https://www.rmtweb.co.uk/mysql-ibtmp1-file-grows-exponentially Hope that helps.

Paddy Sherry · Answer

I had the exact same issue. I am running a laravel app on a linux instance. The app performs a lot of DB queries and I found that the mysql binlogs were eating up the disk space - almost 1GB each. To fix: SSH onto the servercd back to the root directoryrun sudo du -h --max-depth=1 -x to show which directory is consuming spacecd down to var/lib/mysqlrun PURGE BINARY LOGS TO 'mysql-bin.000100'; That will clear out the bin logs. If you want a longer term solution, consider only retaining a few days of logs as explained here

6a9885571bec40e18d20d4b80f4487 · Answer

I found a number of log files that I think (although I’m not sure 100%) that I can delete.But how do I do this? What is the command to clear all log files in a certain directoryOr what is the command to delete a single file?And what is the command to download that specific file should I want to because I’m not 100% sure I can delete it. thanks!

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