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

How I solved it:

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

Hope that helps.

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 server cd back to the root directory run sudo du -h --max-depth=1 -x to show which directory is consuming space cd down to var/lib/mysql run 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

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 directory Or 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!