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Free up disk space...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:53 pm
by spaceout
Hi all,
I'm just looking for some general advice and tips regarding freeing up some disk space on my server. Where are some good places to look? Logs, files, etc. I'm running CentOS, Plesk, ASL, qmail-scanner, spamassassin...

For example, I recently found about 4GB of files being stored in /var/asl/data/suspicious. Are there other places I could be looking as well?

Thanks!

Re: Free up disk space...

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:14 pm
by faris
awstat/webstat website stats going back decades is one place to check.

Re: Free up disk space...

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:00 am
by breun
I recommend installing ncdu and running ncdu / to generate a browsable tree of all of your filesystem sorted by disk usage on every level. This might take a while, depending on how many folders and files there are on your system. You can also use it to check disk usage for folders other than / of course, which will be faster. (Tip: running ncdu without any arguments will scan the current working directory and everything below.)