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Running low on storage

GoWilkes
I'm kind of confused by something, I'm hoping you guys and gals can shed some light on it. My server is a CentOS 6.10 xen hvm, running WHM v. 78.0.49. Under server information, I see that /dev/xvda2 is 99G in size, and I'm using 93G. But I have 477M left, putting it at 100%... what happened to those other 6.5G? Also, tmpfs (mounted on /dev/shm) is 1.9G and uses 0%, and /usr/tmpDSK (mounted on /tmp) is 3.2G and uses 323M. Is there an easy way to shift 1.5G of tmpfs and 2G of /usr/tmpDSK to /dev/xvda2 without formatting or anything?

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  • ZenHostingTravis
    Hi @GoWilkes, I'd suggest installing the ncdu tool to understand where the disk space is being used better.
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  • cPanelLauren
    @GoWilkes can you show me the output of the following: df -kh
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  • GoWilkes
    I'm so sorry to leave you hanging on this, @cPanelLauren ! I didn't get an email that you had replied, of course :-( This is the output, though: # df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda2 99G 89G 4.5G 96% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/xvda1 248M 79M 157M 34% /boot /usr/tmpDSK 3.2G 103M 2.9G 4% /tmp
    I don't know why tmpfs and /usr/tmpDSK are so large, but I can't find a way to recover that space. I know that I'll have to upgrade servers in the near future, I'm just trying to push it off for as long as I can for financial reasons. I've made a few modifications that have cleared up about 5G, though. One major change was to /etc/logrotate.conf: I set it to rotate daily instead of weekly, to compress log files, and then I added this when I saw that /var/log/munin was taking up over 3G by itself: /var/log/munin/munin-graph.log /var/log/munin/munin-html.log /var/log/munin/munin-limits.log /var/log/munin/munin-node.log /var/log/munin/munin-update.log { missingok notifempty create 640 munin munin }
    Otherwise, my biggest hogs are MySQL and a few hosting clients that insist on keeping their emails on the server :-( So other than squeezing a little here and there, there's not much more that I can do. Addendum: I found a directory at /usr/local/apache.ea3/... I migrated to EasyApache 4 last year, and this looks like a bunch of log files that were just backed up. Can I safely delete this entire directory? That's almost 1G by itself. There's also /usr/local/apache.backup/ and /usr/local/apache.backup_archive/... they're only 46M combined, but can I safely delete them? I also have almost 1G of log files at /usr/local/cpanel/logs/archive that go back to 2014! Why aren't they rotating out? Can I safely add something like this to /etc/logrotate.conf ?: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/archive { missingok notifempty }
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