HELP! - disk usage on partition is running low

[Rich-Boy]

I suggest that you seriously consider reading up on basic Linux administration, in my opinion you should be adept in at least locating, identifying and deleting directories/files. This might be a good starting point;
http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

 

[Rich-Boy]

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commands.htm < looks good too

 

[littleoak]

Alex,

Send me an email if you like and I'll help you with this (for free).

 

[alexismya2]

Thank you so much for your help! The information you have given me is invaluable. Thank you so so much.

 

[alexismya2]

Thank you and I sent you email.

 

[littleoak]

I received your email and replied. It will be from christopher (me) at littleoak.

 

[alexismya2]

Thank You So Much Littleoak!! Also Thank You Rich-boy!!!

 

[nobaloney]

Forget your backup directories. Backup is probably crashing before it finishes. You can't trust anything in the backup directories.

Post the output of these commands:

# cd /home
# du -sh /home | grep G

Then for each output line, do the du -sh command for that directory.

Jeff

 

[littleoak]

Jeff,

I took a look at her server. She had a nightly cron set up to back up using the system backup. I removed the extra system backups.

 

[nobaloney]

Good idea .

Jeff

 

[klaver]

simple nifty script to clean up old backup files

simple nifty script to clean up old backup files and keep your disk clean. Create a new file 'del-old-data.sh' and put it in your /home/backup directory with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
# Keep the 21 newest entries in the directory where this script is located, and delete everything else older.
i=1;
max=21;
DIR=`dirname $0`
THIS=`basename $0`
cd $DIR
for file in `ls -1Bt --color=no $DIR | grep -v $THIS` ; do
  if (let "$i>$max"); then
    rm -rf $file;
  fi;
  let i++;
done

give it execute rights:
chmod 700 /home/backup/del-old-data.sh

and create some cronjob to run this script every day:
crontab -e
add:
5 5 * * * /home/backup/del-old-data.sh