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    • dafyreD
      dafyre
      last edited by

      Where's all the space going?

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      • IRJI
        IRJ
        last edited by

        I am trying to figure it out now.

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        • gjacobseG
          gjacobse @IRJ
          last edited by

          @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

          I am trying to figure it out now.

          Tagging @scottalanmiller

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @IRJ
            last edited by

            @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

            I am trying to figure it out now.

            cd /
du -hs

            Then go from there.

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates
              last edited by stacksofplates

              Do du -xsh /*. Should show the highest using directories.

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates
                last edited by

                I seem to remember the /root/.esmtp_queue filling up on a system one time. But that was the only thing that randomly filled up that I recall.

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                • IRJI
                  IRJ
                  last edited by

                  dnf autoremove

                  Freed up about 2GB. Deleting unused kernels freed up about a 1GB. I am still searching for the real disk space hog.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    Fedora typically does not fill up and need cleaned out like Windows does. Chances are this is something rather unique.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce
                      last edited by

                      That's weird. I'm on Fedora 28 Workstation and upgraded it several times and my / is only using 20 GB. I have tons of crap installed.

                      Check the following:
                      /var/log
                      /var/cache

                      I've seen logs go crazy in the past, could also be the cache.

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                      • IRJI
                        IRJ @dafyre
                        last edited by

                        @dafyre said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                        @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                        I am trying to figure it out now.

                        cd /
du -hs

                        Then go from there.

                        0	/bin
193M	/boot
0	/dev
40M	/etc
12G	/home
0	/lib
0	/lib64
16K	/lost+found
4.0K	/media
4.0K	/mnt
91M	/opt
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/task/8074/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/task/8074/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0	/proc
712K	/root
2.2M	/run
0	/sbin
4.0K	/srv
0	/sys
632K	/tmp
8.3G	/usr
36G	/var
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                        • IRJI
                          IRJ @Obsolesce
                          last edited by

                          @obsolesce said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                          That's weird. I'm on Fedora 28 Workstation and upgraded it several times and my / is only using 20 GB. I have tons of crap installed.

                          Check the following:
                          /var/log
                          /var/cache

                          I've seen logs go crazy in the past, could also be the cache.

                          It seems like you may be on to something....

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                          • IRJI
                            IRJ
                            last edited by

                            /var/log is 954MB. That seems high, but not the culprit.

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                            • IRJI
                              IRJ
                              last edited by

                              /var/cache is 1.2GB. Again that also seems high, but likely not culprit.

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                              • IRJI
                                IRJ
                                last edited by

                                /var/lib is 34G. I have found my culprit.

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                                • IRJI
                                  IRJ @stacksofplates
                                  last edited by

                                  @stacksofplates said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                  Do du -xsh /*. Should show the highest using directories.

                                  I am unable to use this command on /var/lib

                                  This is the output:

                                  [user@PCName lib]# du -xsh 
34G	.
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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @IRJ
                                    last edited by travisdh1

                                    @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                    @dafyre said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                    @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                    I am trying to figure it out now.

                                    cd /
du -hs

                                    Then go from there.

                                    0	/bin
193M	/boot
0	/dev
40M	/etc
12G	/home
0	/lib
0	/lib64
16K	/lost+found
4.0K	/media
4.0K	/mnt
91M	/opt
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/task/8074/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/task/8074/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/8074/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0	/proc
712K	/root
2.2M	/run
0	/sbin
4.0K	/srv
0	/sys
632K	/tmp
8.3G	/usr
36G	/var

                                    The /var directory is the culprit, and @Obsolesce is on the right track here I think. If you haven't cd /var and run another du -hs, time to do that. du is the command I use to track down drive space issues.

                                    Being that the system has been upgraded, my money would be on a log file growing to ginourmous proportions.

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                                    • ObsolesceO
                                      Obsolesce
                                      last edited by

                                      So what software in /var/lib is taking up all the space?
                                      du -xsh /var/lib*
                                      ls -lash /var/lib

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                                      • JaredBuschJ
                                        JaredBusch @IRJ
                                        last edited by JaredBusch

                                        @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                        @stacksofplates said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                        Do du -xsh /*. Should show the highest using directories.

                                        I am unable to use this command on /var/lib

                                        This is the output:

                                        [user@PCName lib]# du -xsh 
34G	.

                                        switch to root?

                                        su -

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                                        • stacksofplatesS
                                          stacksofplates @IRJ
                                          last edited by stacksofplates

                                          @irj said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                          @stacksofplates said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                          Do du -xsh /*. Should show the highest using directories.

                                          I am unable to use this command on /var/lib

                                          This is the output:

                                          [user@PCName lib]# du -xsh 
34G	.

                                          -s is summary. So you need to do du -xsh * to show each directory inside of there.

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                                          • IRJI
                                            IRJ @Obsolesce
                                            last edited by

                                            @obsolesce said in Fedora - Low disk space on root.:

                                            ls -lash /var/lib

                                            [user@PC lib]# du -xsh /var/lib*
34G	/var/lib
[user@PC lib]# ls -lash /var/lib
total 240K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 60 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:18 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 23 root    root    4.0K Jun  5 09:25 ..
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K May 31 05:44 abrt
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K May 10 16:19 AccountsService
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:00 alsa
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:20 alternatives
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Jun 10 13:17 bluetooth
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K May 28 11:16 boltd
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 chrony  chrony  4.0K Jul 27 13:03 chrony
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Apr 25 02:34 color
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 colord  colord  4.0K Jun  1 11:46 colord
4.0K drwx------.  2 apache  apache  4.0K Jul 20 06:30 dav
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Apr 30 14:01 dbus
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 14 14:30 dhclient
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun 17 12:27 dkms
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:20 dnf
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    dnsmasq 4.0K Jul  2 14:24 dnsmasq
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  6 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:09 dpkg
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Jul 10 15:34 flatpak
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun 15 12:28 fprint
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    root    4.0K Jun  7 09:04 fwupd
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun 26 13:31 fwupdate
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Feb  7 04:41 games
4.0K drwxrwx--T.  6 gdm     gdm     4.0K Jul 27 08:39 gdm
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  3 geoclue geoclue 4.0K Jun  7 16:39 geoclue
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 08:39 gssproxy
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun 12 01:53 hp
4.0K drwx------.  2 apache  apache  4.0K Jul 20 06:30 httpd
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Apr 25 08:06 hyperv
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 18 07:28 initramfs
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  8 root    root    4.0K Apr 25 02:34 iscsi
4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 12 root    root    4.0K Jul 17 10:39 libvirt
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Feb  8 05:01 lldpad
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:37 logrotate
4.0K drwx------.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun  1 11:46 machines
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Feb  7 04:41 misc
4.0K drwxr-x---.  2 root    slocate 4.0K Jul 27 08:25 mlocate
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K May 21 08:35 net-snmp
4.0K drwx------.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 08:40 NetworkManager
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    root    4.0K Jul 18 13:05 nfs
4.0K drwxrwx---.  2 openvpn openvpn 4.0K Apr 26 11:08 openvpn
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun  1 11:44 os-prober
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:44 PackageKit
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun  7 14:20 plymouth
4.0K drwxr-x---.  3 root    polkitd 4.0K Apr 25 02:34 polkit-1
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    root    4.0K Apr 25 02:34 private
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 08:39 rpm
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:20 rpm-state
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    root    4.0K Jul 24 04:10 samba
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    root    4.0K Jun 26 16:22 selinux
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Feb  9 17:50 sheepdog
4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 10 root    root    4.0K Jun 25 04:02 sss
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  4 root    root    4.0K May 25 07:04 stateless
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  7 root    root    4.0K Jul 18 07:39 systemd
4.0K drwx------.  2 tss     tss     4.0K Feb  9 20:49 tpm
4.0K drwx------.  2 root    root    4.0K Feb  8 09:54 udisks2
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 unbound unbound 4.0K Jul 27 08:25 unbound
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 10:20 upower
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    root    4.0K Jun  1 13:46 xkb
4.0K drwxr-xr-x.  5 root    root    4.0K Jul 27 09:12 yum
[user@PC lib]#
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