out of disk space

[dotdoms]

Hello,

I keep getting emails of my server warning me being out of disk space (which becomes smaller and smaller)...

Subject: Warning: The disk usage for one or more of your partitions is running low Today at 00:10

This is an automated message notifying you that the following partition(s) have exceeded the 95% threshold:

98% - /

Now since I didn´t do anything on the server (didn´t add any users, current users only use very little space of their space) I guess this should be probably caused by log files or stuff. Would anyone of you have a tip where on the server to look at or how to find out how come that there is so little room?

Background is, that I got a 250GB Harddisk in the server and only a few user accounts that I use myself, so I know from that point of view there should probably be still 200G free but obviously it isn´t...

 

[chatwizrd]

You have to type the following to know what partition is full if it is indeed /:

df -h

 

[floyd]

Then go to the partition that is full and run

du -sh *

If the partition really is / then:

cd /
du -sh *

This will tell you which directory on that partition is using so much space. Keep drilling down the directories and you will eventually find the files or directories using up all the space.

 

[dotdoms]

thx to your tips I found the reason! thx a lot.

obviously the server did a full backup everyday on its own harddisk....using 230 GIG... does anyone know how to turn that off? and probably how to fast delete that files (WinSCP is really slow on that)?

 

[nobaloney]

Check the backup cronjobs; there are two backups you can access from your admin control panel.

You can delete the files from the shell, or from the file manager, though the file manager may time out.

Jeff