12.04 Hard drive filling up overnight?

[rosefox911]

Hey guys,

I'm having a bit of an issue. Overnight, my hard drive fill fill up. Once I reboot my machine, it will go back to normal. Any ideas what is causing this? This a 3TB drive, here is output for du -sh /*

8.9M /bin
137M /boot
4.0K /cdrom
4.0K /dev
14M /etc
du: cannot access `/home/jorged/.gvfs': Permission denied
2.2T /home
0 /initrd.img
0 /initrd.img.old
931M /lib
4.0K /lib64
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
4.0K /mnt
4.0K /opt
du: cannot access `/proc/26720/task/26720/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/26720/task/26720/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/26720/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/26720/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0 /proc
120K /root
2.2M /run
8.8M /sbin
4.0K /selinux
4.0K /srv
0 /sys
56K /tmp
1.2T /TV-Movies
2.5G /usr
3.1G /var
0 /vmlinuz
0 /vmlinuz.old


As you can see, home is consuming most of it. TV-Movies is suppose to be that big but home is not.

PS: I do have 4 VMs running on this home server 24/7. They each have 8 GBs, not sure if this is related. It Started around that time.

[dannyboy79]

check your .xsession-errors file. i am betting that the culprit. i believe it gets stored in home. let me know.

[rosefox911]

check your .xsession-errors file. i am betting that the culprit. i believe it gets stored in home. let me know.

Looks like you are right! Any idea how to prevent it? It was HUGE.

[LewisTM]

This seems to be a recurrent problem.
You should look inside your .xsession-errors file and see if you can figure out what's wrong.
Posting the output of this command might help

tail ~/.xsession-errors

If you can't solve it, you can prevent the creation of the file by deleting it and creating a directory under the same name. Dirty trick but it works. Logout/login or reboot for the change to take effect.

Cheers!

[Pauligrinder]

Hi, I have a similar problem, except I can't find what's filling my drive :/ This is a 12.04 VM running on Windows Azure by the way.
The harddrive fills up slowly and about 1-2 times a week I have to reboot it to be able to use it again. The use% of sda1 then drops to around 5%.

Here's my df output:

root@sarkain:/# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        30G  9.4G   19G  34% /
udev            359M   12K  359M   1% /dev
tmpfs           147M  256K  147M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            368M     0  368M   0% /run/shm
/dev/sdb1        20G  172M   19G   1% /mnt/resource
/dev/sdc1       5.0G  784M  4.0G  17% /home

and du output:

root@sarkain:/# du -sh *
8.7M    bin
27M     boot
12K     dev
5.3M    etc
646M    home
0       initrd.img
203M    lib
4.0K    lib64
16K     lost+found
4.0K    media
32K     mnt
4.0K    opt
du: cannot access `proc/30327/task/30327/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/30327/task/30327/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/30327/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/30327/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `proc/30353': No such file or directory
0       proc
16K     root
256K    run
7.9M    sbin
4.0K    selinux
4.0K    srv
0       sys
4.0K    tmp
332M    usr
314M    var
0       vmlinuz

As you can see, nothing seems to be taking up the 9.4GB's on sda1

[dcstar]

Ignore.