Drive Critical: /dev/simfs (/) is 91% full

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Posted by Mrwill, 11-10-2011, 04:49 AM
I have a VPS server and am starting to receive these alerts "Drive Critical: /dev/simfs (/) is 91% full" Are there any basic folders or temp files that are standard to delete? Thanks, -Will
Posted by breton, 11-10-2011, 05:59 AM
Are there any basic folders or temp files that are standard to delete? You sure that _your_ files take all this space? Run df -h and du -sh / # can take some time to run and post output here
Posted by Mrwill, 11-10-2011, 03:45 PM
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 88G 83G 5.7G 94% / none 16G 4.0K 16G 1% /dev root@lx1 [~]# du -sh / # 83G / root@lx1 [~]#
Posted by breton, 11-13-2011, 04:02 AM
Well, try now du -sh /* and look which folder takes all the space by doing the command above to the one with the largest number near it.
Posted by net, 11-13-2011, 04:10 AM
Moved > Hosting Security and Technology.
Posted by ishan, 11-13-2011, 09:44 AM
As you are running cpanel, you can delete - In /usr/local/ - apache.backup/ cpanel-rollback/ apache.backup_archive/ And in /var/log check if anything is using too much space (GBs) You may also take a look at /var/lib/mysql/serverhostname.err and delete it too.
Posted by Mrwill, 11-13-2011, 01:45 PM
0 /aquota.group 0 /aquota.user 4.0K /backup 5.3M /bin 4.0K /boot 4.0K /dev 4.0K /error_log 14M /etc 67G /home 7.0M /ioncube 21M /lib 25M /lib64 4.0K /media 4.0K /mnt 31M /opt 0 /proc 16M /root 25M /sbin 0 /scripts 4.0K /selinux 4.0K /srv 0 /sys 11M /tmp 5.0G /usr 3.8G /var
Posted by ishan, 11-13-2011, 02:12 PM
du -sh /home/*/mail/new/ will give you users with unrouted mail sent to default folder. You can take a look and clear these. Also set default address of all email accounts to Fail. Search for core.* files in /home, as that can use a lot of space. Turn off any stats processing that you dont use like analog and webalizer. Search for error_log files and see if any client has huge error log files. As you are on a VPS, are second level quotas enabled? If not, your users can use virtually unlimited space each. See if all users have disk space quota unlimited in WHM. Ask your host to enable quotas. There are many more things you can do and cleaning up a server is a great learning process. Ishan
Posted by Mrwill, 11-28-2011, 09:58 PM
Thank you all