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ebes92

Sep 2 2005, 12:38 AM

Hi,

I've got a box with cPanel with 2 hard drives (one for backup).
Until a few days ago, everything was working fine.

But now, I receive drive space alerts :

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Drive Warning: /hdc1 (/backup) is 85% full

Here are results of df :

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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 74778592 20616780 50363244 30% /
/dev/hda1 101089 14638 81232 16% /boot
none 515280 0 515280 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1 76896316 61486448 11503668 85% /backup

My problem is that the space of backup datas is about 40% of the total space. So what are the 45 other % ? (40+45=85)

I don't know how to list the exact content of /dev/hdc1.

If somebody can help me, he will be really welcome

I'd like also to know how to list all files biggest than a certain size. For eg : files biggest than 50Mb.

Thanks

Emmanuel

dalem

Sep 2 2005, 10:28 AM

cd /backup
du -h --max-depth=1

find the folders with the content in them and cd to them

ls -laSh | more

to list the contents & file sizes

or just use SFPT and browse them

eth00

Sep 2 2005, 12:29 PM

You probably have daily/weekly/monthly setup which can take up a lot more space.

ebes92

Sep 3 2005, 10:06 AM

At first, thanks for your help:)

QUOTE (dalem)

cd /backup
du -h --max-depth=1

Here it is the results :

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# du -h --max-depth=1
16K ./lost+found
9.4G ./cpbackup
9.4G .

So the bigest folder is cpbackup with 9.4G

QUOTE (dalem)

find the folders with the content in them and cd to them

ls -laSh | more

to list the contents & file sizes

Results are :

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# ls -laSh | more
total 20K
drwx--x--x 5 root root 4.0K Oct 9 2004 ./
drwx--x--x 4 root root 4.0K Oct 7 2004 ../
drwx--x--x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 3 05:23 daily/
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 22 08:20 monthly/
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 1 09:46 weekly/

QUOTE (eth00)

You probably have daily/weekly/monthly setup which can take up a lot more space.

Monthly and weekly are empty (as I use only daily backup) and daily content is 9.4G ...

So, there's a strange thing (or a bug) with my 'df' command wich still returns 85% used space on /backup (backup disk is a 80G one with only 9.4G of datas) :

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# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 74778592 20666472 50313552 30% /
/dev/hda1 101089 14638 81232 16% /boot
none 515280 0 515280 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1 76896316 61487608 11502508 85% /backup

And I really think I'm not wrong when I say that 9.4 is not 85% of 80Go

So where are the mysterious hidden datas ?

ebes92

Sep 7 2005, 02:19 AM

Well, I found the solution of my problem.

The backup disk was damaged. I had to run a fsck and everything was repared.

Thanks to dalem and eth00 for ther help.

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