root file system full

[Ralf Puchner]

Mohammed,

with this facts it seems there are no "hidden" files. At what time have you noticed the filesystem full message? Maybe your filesystem is really too small or a big file leads to this problem.

Only chance without reorganisation of filesytem is to find a big file which can be moved (e.g. old kernel).

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Ralf,

what do you think about my idea? I had this problem once myself.
I still think, this problem is caused by overlayed files in mount points. Which application would use 60mb in /?

Have you deleted any big files lately in /?

hth,

Michael

[Ralf Puchner]

Michael,

removing /sys/binary is not a good idea, rebooting not necessary (this is not windows it is unix ;-) )

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

Hi all
Thanks for your contributions and time.

I have rebooted the system and the size came back to normal. I am not sure what was holding the size too high, but rebooting might have released space that didn't release normally from a process as mentioned above.

I rebooted from the OS cd-rom, repartitioned the system disk with a larger partition for the root (/) so it can hold more space in case something like this happens again

After repartitioning, I have restored /, /usr and /var from a backup, then rebooted the system and it works again as usual.

Thanks all

Mohamed

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

The problem was fixed.
The /dev/null file was not a charcter device file, it was fixed, and the space is stable.

Mohamed