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linux - How do I find out what is using up all the space on my / partition?




I am on a large instance on Amazon's EC2 servers. I run the df command and get:



root@db:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             9.9G  9.1G  284M  98% /
tmpfs                 3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                3.8G  116K  3.8G   1% /var/run
varlock               3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /var/lock
udev                  3.8G   80K  3.8G   1% /dev

tmpfs                 3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb              414G  957M  392G   1% /mnt
/dev/sdf               50G   12G   35G  26% /byp
/dev/sdk               99G   31G   63G  33% /backups


I then run the du command and get:



root@db:/# du -s -h /*
31G     /backups

5.5M    /bin
136K    /boot
12G     /byp
80K     /dev
5.8M    /etc
12K     /home
70M     /lib
11M     /lib32
0       /lib64
16K     /lost+found

759M    /mnt
4.0K    /opt
du: cannot access `/proc/6917/task/6917/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/6917/fd/4': No such file or directory
0       /proc
31M     /root
7.7M    /sbin
4.0K    /selinux
4.0K    /srv
0       /sys

11M     /tmp
1.1G    /usr
114M    /var


If you notice, when you add up all the sizes on the du command output of non-mounted directories, you will not get anywhere close to 9.1G as seen in the df command.



Does this mean I have a bad disk? If so, how can I fix it?


Answer



It's entirely possible that you have a very large deleted file (or lots of little ones) that a process still has an open file handle on. The way to find them is to run




# lsof | grep "deleted"


If you see lots of lines that end with "(deleted)" then you can find the process Id that has them open and restart it. Once that happens, your disk space should return.



If this does not fix it, then I'd recommend a fsck.


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