[ale] who is eating my drive

[Lightner, Jeff]

VM = Vmware?   Which version?

 

I wouldn't expect to see a size on /dev normally - it appears you
allocated 4 GB to it as a filesystem of its own.   Since it typically
would only contain device files it would take up very little room so
usually isn't a separate mount on most *nix OSes.

 

/dev/shm always shows up but isn't a physical filesystem - it probably
is showing 4 GB because it is a subdirectory of /dev which has 4 GB.

 

Not sure where the /var/run and /var/lock are coming from - on my old
ESX box I don't see those as mounts.   If you run df -h /var what does
it show?   Is /var/lock a link to /var/run or vice-versa?

 

Are any of these in /etc/fstab on the guest? 

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Narahari 'n' Savitha
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:41 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] who is eating my drive

 

It looks like the

/dev and /var each have a space of 4G

So that is 13G + 8G = 21G, but the question is why is /dev/having so
much and why /var is having 4G and how can I "trim" it

-Narahari

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:

Friends:

I did the following today on my vm.  It has an allocated space of 22G
total for the drive

>From the Windoze box I see this  22,548,578,304 Ubuntu64-1104-flat.vmdk

When I am running inside the VM I type this in a terminal and I see
this.

devusr at devusr-virtual-machine:/$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              13G   11G  1.4G  89% /
none                  4.0G  620K  3.9G   1% /dev
none                  4.0G  272K  4.0G   1% /dev/shm
none                  4.0G  236K  4.0G   1% /var/run
none                  4.0G     0  4.0G   0% /var/lock
.host:/               466G  202G  265G  44% /mnt/hgfs

Forget the last entry it is mounted


I am not sure who is eating the

/dev
/dev/shm
/var/run
/var/lock

They all ar consuming 4G (total or individual I am no sure).  But some
how I dont have space.

Can some one help me here please ?

-Narahari
 
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