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04-08-2008, 11:27 PM
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Disk suddenly full
A 40 Gb disk that had been only 35% used is suddenly full. The problem appeared when the system was started up Monday morning. (It had been powered off over the weekend.) After over 60 Mb of files were deleted, 'df' still reported zero blocks available. What could cause this?
reboot doesn't help. fsck reports no errors. sfdisk -V reports no problems with the partition table. df -i reports only 22% inode use. OS is Debian 4.0. Suggestions greatfully appreciated. Last edited by JohnPrenis; 04-08-2008 at 11:35 PM. 
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05-08-2008, 11:24 AM
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Do you have one big partition or partition for each file system? The following should show you top 10 files/dirs in /:
Code:
du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10
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05-08-2008, 07:43 PM
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Mystery solved
The mystery is solved. It seems my co-worker was misinformed when he said the disk was 35% full last Friday. The culprit is a snapshot script that had been steadily filling up the disk, until it has eaten 3/4 of the disk space.
But thanks for the tip!
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