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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    Code:
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    Code:
    du -hd 1 /
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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    The mysql database isn't in /var/www... that whole folder is 2.2MB.

    Oh... found it! There was a 6.4GB tar archive in /var/mysql folder.

    It was part of my backup from a couple months ago when I was trying to recover my local WordPress blog.

    The system doesn't register the additional space right away, though, huh?

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    In the future, if you want to see what branches of your filesystem are taking up the most space, Ubuntu includes an application called Baobab for this task. I think they call it Disk Usage Analyzer.
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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    Hi, I'm having a similar problem. I'm running natty amd64 and this is the first time the root partition has (almost) filled up. I've had several Ubuntu systems running for the last two years and this is a first time occurrence.

    output of df -h :

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    root@*******:/# df -h
    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda5             4.6G  4.4G   43M 100% /
    none                  1.7G  724K  1.7G   1% /dev
    none                  1.7G  124K  1.7G   1% /dev/shm
    none                  1.7G  436K  1.7G   1% /var/run
    none                  1.7G  4.0K  1.7G   1% /var/lock
    /dev/sdb1             299G  155G  144G  52% /media/sdb1
    /dev/sda7             3.7G   72M  3.5G   3% /tmp
    /dev/sda1             184M   68M  107M  39% /boot
    /dev/sda8             3.7G  565M  3.0G  16% /var
    /dev/sda9             898G  255G  598G  30% /home

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    For standard desktops I do not recommend separate system partitions so you can share any free space. Otherwise you have to plan system size for every partition.

    I normally suggest 10 to 20GB for / with everything included, but I have a somewhat larger drive and use 25GB for all my / that I have.

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    Quote Originally Posted by bjarkih View Post
    Hi, I'm having a similar problem. I'm running natty amd64 and this is the first time the root partition has (almost) filled up. I've had several Ubuntu systems running for the last two years and this is a first time occurrence.
    Did you follow the suggestions in this thread to see what eats the space?

    If you reboot regularly, the below will not apply. Else it might

    df reports different from du. If you delete a file that is in use by a program, df will not see that while du will. df will only see it once you close the program that has the file in use. You can check for this type of files with the lsof command.

    Code:
    fortyfourgalena@desktop-01:~/Desktop$ lsof |grep deleted
    nautilus  2170 fortyfourgalena   21r      REG                8,9    64296    3558940 /home/fortyfourgalena/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home (deleted)
    nautilus  2170 fortyfourgalena   22w      REG                8,9    32768    3558941 /home/fortyfourgalena/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-bf7d2b87.log (deleted)
    indicator 2225 fortyfourgalena   20w      REG                8,9    64296    3559232 /home/fortyfourgalena/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home (deleted)
    indicator 2225 fortyfourgalena   21r      REG                8,9    32768    3559244 /home/fortyfourgalena/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-d056db1e.log (deleted)
    gnome-ter 2615 fortyfourgalena   22u      REG                8,7     2446    1232223 /tmp/vteG56S0V (deleted)
    gnome-ter 2615 fortyfourgalena   23u      REG                8,7      304    1232228 /tmp/vteV86S0V (deleted)
    gnome-ter 2615 fortyfourgalena   24u      REG                8,7     1952    1232229 /tmp/vte1Z720V (deleted)
    fortyfourgalena@desktop-01:~/Desktop$
    If you don't make backups of your important data, your data is obviously not important to you.

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    I ran into the problem again just recently-- I had a misconfigured plugin in a local WordPress install that generated 11GB of error logs in Apache2 in the space of a couple minutes.

    I saw what was happening and was able to reboot the machine in safe mode and was able to delete the logs so I could start Ubuntu again correctly.

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    Time to consider to move /var to a dedicated partition
    And to move your database out of /var if applicable and you have not done so yet.
    If you don't make backups of your important data, your data is obviously not important to you.

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    Re: / (root) partition is full? How much do I need for 10.04

    Time for me to get a larger hard drive...

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