Out of disk space too early

Issue the command below to see what folder is using up most space

du -sh /*

That should give a summary of what folder is the largest. It won’t be an instant result, give the command time to run.

logrotate is the utility that automatically compresses old log files. You can also configure it to delete older logs. Edit the file /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 It will look like:

/var/log/apache2/*.log {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                if /etc/init.d/apache2 status > /dev/null ; then \
                    /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null; \
                fi;
        endscript
        prerotate
                if [ -d /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate ]; then \
                        run-parts /etc/logrotate.d/httpd-prerotate; \
                fi; \
        endscript
}

Add maxage 14 to delete logs older than two weeks.

It’s possible that the backups could be consuming a significant amount of disk space, even if you’ve disabled them. When backups are made, they can take up space either in a designated backup directory or in temporary files that might not be automatically deleted when the backups are disabled or deleted.

On top of what’s already been mentioned you can check our article on how to fix disk space issues on your droplet here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/how-do-i-fix-disk-space-issues-on-my-droplet/

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