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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-24-2008, 11:52 AM |
| hi guys
can i activate the deletion command for 10 or 30 mins and then stop it ? i think by this way we cant delete some files from the dir and not all the files so i can edit my files
i want to do this because my server doesnt respond to any file system command because my hardisk is full !! so i need to remove some files by any way
so please help me if u can
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| Posted by Patrick, 02-24-2008, 01:22 PM |
| That's not a real fix... do you know what partitions are full?
df -h
Depending on the partition, it could be old core files, log files, etc... othewise you may have to add a larger hard drive.
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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-24-2008, 06:43 PM |
| Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
686G 653G 0 100% /
how can i delete those things you told ? (logs) (old core files) etc..
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 02-24-2008, 10:35 PM |
| Whats the error when u try to delete the file. You can even try to emply files using
>filename
try it
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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-24-2008, 11:20 PM |
| Argument list too long < this is the error
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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-24-2008, 11:24 PM |
| so how can i delete those things you told ? (logs) (old core files) etc
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 02-24-2008, 11:27 PM |
| try these
1. cd
2. rm -rf [a-q]* (change the regular expression according to your requirements)
3. If 2 does nt work out
for i in `ls`
do
rm -rf $i
done
PS : make sure you delete the unnecessary files only.
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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-24-2008, 11:38 PM |
| ok but how i can find the logs folder ?
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| Posted by markhard, 02-24-2008, 11:40 PM |
| i got that error message when i try to delete a lot of log files at once.
try reduce the number you want to delete at one time.
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 02-24-2008, 11:41 PM |
| usually /var/log
please remove the -r option from rm as there would be folders inside the /var/log directory
so the commands can be restated as
1. cd
2. rm -f [a-q]* (change the regular expression according to your requirements)
3. If 2 does nt work out
for i in `ls`
do
rm -f $i
done
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| Posted by markhard, 02-24-2008, 11:43 PM |
| usually at /var/log
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| Posted by Bahaa Ajbaa, 02-25-2008, 07:51 AM |
| i have delete all the files in log folder
still my hardisk out of space
what i can do ?
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| Posted by HoundOfTheSmith, 02-25-2008, 11:14 AM |
| Start in / and then do:
du -csk * | sort -n | tail -n 5
That will give you the 5 directories/files taking up the most disk space. If the largest user of disk space is a directory cd into it and repeat the command. Keep going until you find the offending file(s).
If you're really, really, in a hurry to blow away all your log files then do:
find /var/log -type f -exec rm {} \;
This will delete every file under var log, probably including ones you didn't want to delete
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| Posted by devonblzx, 02-25-2008, 01:08 PM |
| You should hire a management company to help resolve it for you. You need to find where the space is being used, not just delete random files.
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