[Discuss] MyBookLive disk space issues

[sweetser at alum.mit.edu (Doug)]

MyBookLive:~# swapon -s
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/sda3


MyBookLive:~# cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,size=50M 0 0

/dev/md1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0

MyBookLive:~# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l

It looks like /tmp is not taking up much space at all.


Some things seen but not understoon in dmesg...

Kernel command line: root=/dev/md1 rw rootfstype=ext3 console=ttyS0,1152
00
...
NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/O].
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) ? 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
fuse init (API version 7.13)
SGI XFS with security attributes, large block/inode numbers, no debug en
abled
...
scsi0 : sata-dwc
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 23
...
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
...
scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD10EARX-00N 51.0 PQ: 0 ANS
I: 5
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
apm82181-adma: Probing AMCC APM82181 ADMA engines...
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
...
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Scanned 2 and added 2 devices.
md: autorun ...
md: considering sda2 ...
md:  adding sda2 ...
md:  adding sda1 ...
md: created md1
md: bind<sda1>
md: bind<sda2>
md: running: <sda2><sda1>
md1: WARNING: sda2 appears to be on the same physical disk as sda1.
True protection against single-disk failure might be compromised.
raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 2047803392
md: ... autorun DONE.
 md1: unknown partition table
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on md1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.



Doug
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Doug wrote:
>>
>> /dev/md1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?1.9G ?1.9G ? ? 0 100% /
> [...]
>> ramlog-tmpfs ? ? ? ? ?1.9G ?1.9G ? ? 0 100% /var/log
>
>> MyBookLive:/# du -sh var
>> 1.5G ?var
>
> This is going to give you misleading results because /var/log is not a real file system. ?It is actually a RAM disk which is probably backed by swap. ?Ah-hah! ?There's a clue! ?Run "swapon -s" to see what you are using for swap.
>
> --Rich P.
>
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