[Discuss] MyBookLive disk space issues

[John Abreau]

To find the biggest files automatically:

    du -a -x / > /DataVolume/foo

-a == list all files

-x == only look at one filesystem

    sort -n -r /DataVolume/foo > /DataVolume/bar



Sent from my iPad

On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> I've got a WD MyBook at work. I am surprised that /DataVolume is not
> RAID, but based on my experience, MyBook uses Busybox. I added some
> software from optware. In any case, you will need to manually drill down
> the root files system /dev/md1 and try to find out where the larger
> files are and manually delete them. After you locate the culprits, you
> might want to check out optware for some of the commands that BusyBox is
> missing (or brain dead). You might find that MyBook Live is not rotating
> the logs.
> 
> On 02/17/2012 07:34 PM, Doug wrote:
>> I bought a MyBookLive for the family media collection. I like that
>> they are using open source software on the device. I am able to ssh
>> over there and reboot for example when that is needed.
>> 
>> I got a message that a file was not able to be written. So I ran this command:
>> 
>> MyBookLive:~# df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/md1              1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /
>> tmpfs                  50M     0   50M   0% /lib/init/rw
>> udev                   10M  6.7M  3.4M  67% /dev
>> tmpfs                  50M     0   50M   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                  50M  2.7M   48M   6% /tmp
>> ramlog-tmpfs          1.9G  1.9G     0 100% /var/log
>> /dev/sda4             924G  531G  393G  58% /DataVolume
>> 
>> 100%, not a good sign. Where are the problems?
>> 
>> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var
>> 1.5G    var
>> 
>> Let's look in there:
>> 
>> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var/*
>> 4.0K    var/backups
>> 1.3M    var/cache
>> 15M    var/lib
>> 52K    var/local
>> 0    var/lock
>> 946M    var/log
>> 4.0K    var/log.hdd
>> 4.0K    var/mail
>> 4.0K    var/opt
>> 0    var/run
>> 12K    var/spool
>> 0    var/tmp
>> 0    var/twonkymedia
>> 542M    var/www
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> MyBookLive:/# du -sh --si var/*
>> 4.1k    var/backups
>> 1.4M    var/cache
>> 15M    var/lib
>> 54k    var/local
>> 0    var/lock
>> 992M    var/log
>> 4.1k    var/log.hdd
>> 4.1k    var/mail
>> 4.1k    var/opt
>> 0    var/run
>> 13k    var/spool
>> 0    var/tmp
>> 0    var/twonkymedia
>> 568M    var/www
>> 
>> I am not seeing it (the --si follows symbolic links).
>> 
>> MyBookLive:/var# ls -lah
>> total 48K
>> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4.0K Dec 31 19:17 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Feb 17  2012 backups
>> drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 cache
>> drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 lib
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 local
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Nov 14  2011 lock -> /tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4.0K Dec 31 19:03 log
>> drwxrwxrw-  2 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 log.hdd
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 mail
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 opt
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Nov 14  2011 run -> /tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 spool
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Nov 14  2011 tmp -> /tmp
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Nov 14  2011 twonkymedia ->
>> /CacheVolume/twonkymedia
>> drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4.0K Nov 14  2011 www
>> 
>> How should I be looking for who is eating up all the disk space? Is
>> there a general command to limit cache or logs? I guess I am not much
>> of a sys admin.
>> 
> 
> 
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