i have an 80 gig hard drive and my accounts only use about 10 gigs. but all of a sudden 95% of my drive is full. i thought it had something to do with my backup drive getting unmounted all of a sudden after a reboot but even after i remounted the drive to my /backup directory my primary drive still shows 95% space used. could this have to do with crazy out-of-control logs or something of that nature, the drive, or something else?

thanks!

Try running this

find / -size 512000c

That should find all files on your HD that are larger than 500MB to help you isolate the space gobbling culprit

Could also very well be attributed to filesystem errors.

Try: egrep 'EXT(2|3)-fs error' /var/log/messages

If errors are present, then you will need to run a fsck ( pass 'F' to shutdown when rebooting, or you can open a ticket with ev1servers ).

- Steve

root@host [/]# find / -size 512000c
find: /proc/16652/fd: No such file or directory
find: /proc/16674/fd: No such file or directory
find: /proc/16715/fd: No such file or directory
find: /proc/16800/fd: No such file or directory
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root@host [/]# egrep 'EXT(2|3)-fs error' /var/log/messages
root@host [/]#

nothing. any other advice?

thanks very much for the input!

If you unmount the backup drive, you might be able to see files created while it was unmounted(under the backup directory).

And will you show us the result of this command?

thanks. actually i figured it out already and it did have to deal with the backup data still existing on the primary drive.