Disk /dev/root full, but cannot identify the reason
I need some help to fix some disk space issue.
Actually I'm using a private vps cloud server with 50Gb of disk space.
When I run df -h
, I get :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 48G 45G 570M 99% /
devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 395M 524K 395M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
df -i
returns :
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/root 3141600 78065 3063535 3% /
devtmpfs 505084 1438 503646 1% /dev
none 505206 2 505204 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 505206 891 504315 1% /run
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/lock
none 505206 1 505205 1% /run/shm
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/user
But when I run du -sh / | sort -nr | head
, I get :
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPv6â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPâ: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/402â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32350â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32354â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32356â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32360â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32363â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32368â: No such file or directory
8.9G /
So I know that both commands don't return the same kind of informations. The first returns the filesystem disk usage, the other, the space used by files.
There is no mounted drive or device, and logs weight is ~167M.
I tried cat /proc/mounts
which returns :
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2020336k,nr_inodes=505084,mode=755 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=404168k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
So I can I identify what is using so much space, as my du
seems ok ?
I tried autoclean
and autoremove
with no chance, every thing is all right.
BTW I also have a cron which runs datas and mysql dump and send it to Dropbox. But the 7 folders (7 days backup) only use 1.7gb of disk space.
disk-usage
|
show 1 more comment
I need some help to fix some disk space issue.
Actually I'm using a private vps cloud server with 50Gb of disk space.
When I run df -h
, I get :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 48G 45G 570M 99% /
devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 395M 524K 395M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
df -i
returns :
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/root 3141600 78065 3063535 3% /
devtmpfs 505084 1438 503646 1% /dev
none 505206 2 505204 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 505206 891 504315 1% /run
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/lock
none 505206 1 505205 1% /run/shm
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/user
But when I run du -sh / | sort -nr | head
, I get :
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPv6â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPâ: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/402â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32350â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32354â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32356â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32360â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32363â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32368â: No such file or directory
8.9G /
So I know that both commands don't return the same kind of informations. The first returns the filesystem disk usage, the other, the space used by files.
There is no mounted drive or device, and logs weight is ~167M.
I tried cat /proc/mounts
which returns :
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2020336k,nr_inodes=505084,mode=755 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=404168k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
So I can I identify what is using so much space, as my du
seems ok ?
I tried autoclean
and autoremove
with no chance, every thing is all right.
BTW I also have a cron which runs datas and mysql dump and send it to Dropbox. But the 7 folders (7 days backup) only use 1.7gb of disk space.
disk-usage
what doesdf -i
tell you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
please update your question to include that information. Also, what doescat /proc/mounts
give you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40
|
show 1 more comment
I need some help to fix some disk space issue.
Actually I'm using a private vps cloud server with 50Gb of disk space.
When I run df -h
, I get :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 48G 45G 570M 99% /
devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 395M 524K 395M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
df -i
returns :
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/root 3141600 78065 3063535 3% /
devtmpfs 505084 1438 503646 1% /dev
none 505206 2 505204 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 505206 891 504315 1% /run
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/lock
none 505206 1 505205 1% /run/shm
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/user
But when I run du -sh / | sort -nr | head
, I get :
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPv6â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPâ: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/402â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32350â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32354â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32356â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32360â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32363â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32368â: No such file or directory
8.9G /
So I know that both commands don't return the same kind of informations. The first returns the filesystem disk usage, the other, the space used by files.
There is no mounted drive or device, and logs weight is ~167M.
I tried cat /proc/mounts
which returns :
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2020336k,nr_inodes=505084,mode=755 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=404168k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
So I can I identify what is using so much space, as my du
seems ok ?
I tried autoclean
and autoremove
with no chance, every thing is all right.
BTW I also have a cron which runs datas and mysql dump and send it to Dropbox. But the 7 folders (7 days backup) only use 1.7gb of disk space.
disk-usage
I need some help to fix some disk space issue.
Actually I'm using a private vps cloud server with 50Gb of disk space.
When I run df -h
, I get :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 48G 45G 570M 99% /
devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 395M 524K 395M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
df -i
returns :
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/root 3141600 78065 3063535 3% /
devtmpfs 505084 1438 503646 1% /dev
none 505206 2 505204 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 505206 891 504315 1% /run
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/lock
none 505206 1 505205 1% /run/shm
none 505206 2 505204 1% /run/user
But when I run du -sh / | sort -nr | head
, I get :
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPv6â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/sys/kernel/slab/L2TP/IPâ: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/task/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fd/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/391/fdinfo/4â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/402â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32350â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32354â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32356â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32360â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32363â: No such file or directory
du: cannot access â/proc/32368â: No such file or directory
8.9G /
So I know that both commands don't return the same kind of informations. The first returns the filesystem disk usage, the other, the space used by files.
There is no mounted drive or device, and logs weight is ~167M.
I tried cat /proc/mounts
which returns :
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=2020336k,nr_inodes=505084,mode=755 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=404168k,mode=755 0 0
none /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,relatime 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755 0 0
systemd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd 0 0
So I can I identify what is using so much space, as my du
seems ok ?
I tried autoclean
and autoremove
with no chance, every thing is all right.
BTW I also have a cron which runs datas and mysql dump and send it to Dropbox. But the 7 folders (7 days backup) only use 1.7gb of disk space.
disk-usage
disk-usage
edited Dec 16 at 21:25
guntbert
9,068133069
9,068133069
asked Jan 27 '15 at 11:17
Neovea
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1613
what doesdf -i
tell you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
please update your question to include that information. Also, what doescat /proc/mounts
give you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40
|
show 1 more comment
what doesdf -i
tell you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
please update your question to include that information. Also, what doescat /proc/mounts
give you?
– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40
what does
df -i
tell you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
what does
df -i
tell you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
please update your question to include that information. Also, what does
cat /proc/mounts
give you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
please update your question to include that information. Also, what does
cat /proc/mounts
give you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40
|
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Do you have any other partitions that you occasionally mount? I just tried to help a guy with a similar problem a few hours ago: 14.04 disk mount problem came our of left field As we found out together, he once mounted a partition for backup and it crashed (power fail I think). After that, the partition somehow stayed in a mounted state as an unaccessible folder in /media/ and also counted to the disk usage info. He finally just deleted the corrupted mountpoint to solve the issue.
So do you also have any dead mounts? Then you can try removing them (backup is always recommended! I take no responsibility for eventually damaged data!).
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted./media
and/mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
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OP said
I figured it out.
Actually I was using a script to launch the backup and sync to dropbox of my app files. Things are : I have a sync script which tells what is the application to get the backups from, then sync it to dropbox. But the sync is both way.
And the temporary sync files are in the same folder as the sync script. For an unknown reason, the script was executed multiple times instead of once (probably a bad cron configuration). So each instance was using some disk space to sync and I finally ran out of disk space.
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Do you have any other partitions that you occasionally mount? I just tried to help a guy with a similar problem a few hours ago: 14.04 disk mount problem came our of left field As we found out together, he once mounted a partition for backup and it crashed (power fail I think). After that, the partition somehow stayed in a mounted state as an unaccessible folder in /media/ and also counted to the disk usage info. He finally just deleted the corrupted mountpoint to solve the issue.
So do you also have any dead mounts? Then you can try removing them (backup is always recommended! I take no responsibility for eventually damaged data!).
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted./media
and/mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
add a comment |
Do you have any other partitions that you occasionally mount? I just tried to help a guy with a similar problem a few hours ago: 14.04 disk mount problem came our of left field As we found out together, he once mounted a partition for backup and it crashed (power fail I think). After that, the partition somehow stayed in a mounted state as an unaccessible folder in /media/ and also counted to the disk usage info. He finally just deleted the corrupted mountpoint to solve the issue.
So do you also have any dead mounts? Then you can try removing them (backup is always recommended! I take no responsibility for eventually damaged data!).
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted./media
and/mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
add a comment |
Do you have any other partitions that you occasionally mount? I just tried to help a guy with a similar problem a few hours ago: 14.04 disk mount problem came our of left field As we found out together, he once mounted a partition for backup and it crashed (power fail I think). After that, the partition somehow stayed in a mounted state as an unaccessible folder in /media/ and also counted to the disk usage info. He finally just deleted the corrupted mountpoint to solve the issue.
So do you also have any dead mounts? Then you can try removing them (backup is always recommended! I take no responsibility for eventually damaged data!).
Do you have any other partitions that you occasionally mount? I just tried to help a guy with a similar problem a few hours ago: 14.04 disk mount problem came our of left field As we found out together, he once mounted a partition for backup and it crashed (power fail I think). After that, the partition somehow stayed in a mounted state as an unaccessible folder in /media/ and also counted to the disk usage info. He finally just deleted the corrupted mountpoint to solve the issue.
So do you also have any dead mounts? Then you can try removing them (backup is always recommended! I take no responsibility for eventually damaged data!).
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23
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AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted./media
and/mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
add a comment |
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted./media
and/mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted.
/media
and /mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
AFAIK, there is no other system or disk mounted.
/media
and /mnt
remain empty (except for media in which there is a cdrom).– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:50
1
1
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
It isn't corrupt; you simply have files in that directory and once you mount another fs on top of it, du can no longer see those files because the other fs is in the way.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:41
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
Sorry I don't understand what you mean, I didn't mount anything, so...
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 15:33
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OP said
I figured it out.
Actually I was using a script to launch the backup and sync to dropbox of my app files. Things are : I have a sync script which tells what is the application to get the backups from, then sync it to dropbox. But the sync is both way.
And the temporary sync files are in the same folder as the sync script. For an unknown reason, the script was executed multiple times instead of once (probably a bad cron configuration). So each instance was using some disk space to sync and I finally ran out of disk space.
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OP said
I figured it out.
Actually I was using a script to launch the backup and sync to dropbox of my app files. Things are : I have a sync script which tells what is the application to get the backups from, then sync it to dropbox. But the sync is both way.
And the temporary sync files are in the same folder as the sync script. For an unknown reason, the script was executed multiple times instead of once (probably a bad cron configuration). So each instance was using some disk space to sync and I finally ran out of disk space.
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OP said
I figured it out.
Actually I was using a script to launch the backup and sync to dropbox of my app files. Things are : I have a sync script which tells what is the application to get the backups from, then sync it to dropbox. But the sync is both way.
And the temporary sync files are in the same folder as the sync script. For an unknown reason, the script was executed multiple times instead of once (probably a bad cron configuration). So each instance was using some disk space to sync and I finally ran out of disk space.
OP said
I figured it out.
Actually I was using a script to launch the backup and sync to dropbox of my app files. Things are : I have a sync script which tells what is the application to get the backups from, then sync it to dropbox. But the sync is both way.
And the temporary sync files are in the same folder as the sync script. For an unknown reason, the script was executed multiple times instead of once (probably a bad cron configuration). So each instance was using some disk space to sync and I finally ran out of disk space.
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what does
df -i
tell you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:37
please update your question to include that information. Also, what does
cat /proc/mounts
give you?– Frederick Nord
Jan 27 '15 at 12:48
Question updated.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 12:54
Are you actually running Ubuntu? That /dev/root and devtmpfs stuff doesn't show up on Ubuntu... iirc, it is older versions of redhat that do that.
– psusi
Jan 27 '15 at 13:38
I confirm : I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64 bits) on vps cloud host.
– Neovea
Jan 27 '15 at 13:40