/dev/mapper/pve-root used 51%.

[sshami]

Hello Support out there,
I have standalone Proxmox server where i am noticing space is almost 51% used.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   63G     0   63G   0% /dev
tmpfs                  13G  154M   13G   2% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root  104G   50G   49G  51% /
tmpfs                  63G   43M   63G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  63G     0   63G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdc2             511M  312K  511M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/fuse              30M   32K   30M   1% /etc/pve
tmpfs                  13G     0   13G   0% /run/user/1000
total                 318G   50G  263G  16% -

Basically this the root (/dev/mapper/pve-root) where os installed.

How to cleanup to see where all the spaces used.

 

[oguz]

hi,

How to cleanup to see where all the spaces used.

you can check like this:

 du -a / 2>/dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n 30

change the number at head if you want to see more.

 

[sshami]

Thanks!

As i can see location
/var/log

4905608468 Jan 25 10:45 lastlog

Is it okay to clear lastlog and how to clear.

This is the result.

50790881    /
25079312    /home
25079024    /home/vzdump-qemu-121-2021_10_02-23_02_33.vma.zst
22294356    /var
22133248    /var/lib
21974824    /var/lib/vz
15119904    /var/lib/vz/dump
15119852    /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-117-2021_07_14-15_30_50.vma
6854912    /var/lib/vz/template
6854900    /var/lib/vz/template/iso
3260520    /usr
1728748    /usr/lib
827880    /usr/share
553420    /usr/lib/modules
542348    /usr/bin
364204    /usr/lib/firmware
338308    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
277228    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.106-1-pve
276188    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.73-1-pve
265416    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.106-1-pve/kernel
265276    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.73-1-pve/kernel
220692    /usr/share/kvm
193316    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.106-1-pve/kernel/drivers
193244    /usr/lib/modules/5.4.73-1-pve/kernel/drivers

 

[oguz]

Is it okay to clear lastlog and how to clear.

you could also just compress it and delete the old one (should compress pretty well with something like: tar czvf /var/log/lastlog.tar.gz /var/log/lastlog and then you can delete the old one (will be recreated)

otherwise you still seem to have about 50G of space so i wouldn't worry too much. that's only for the root partition. you probably also have other disks?
if not then maybe you should

 

[sshami]

Hi Oguz, Thanks for the info!
After compressing lastlog file then delete, then there is no auto created lastlog file. If its deleted won't be any problem ?

I have created a script for disk cleanup, would like to hear your input or any ideas will be highly appreciated.

#!/bin/sh

#set -e

printf "Disk information\n"
df /dev/mapper/pve-root -h

#Check the Drive Space Used by Cached Files
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives


#Systemd journal logs
journalctl --disk-usage
journalctl --rotate --vacuum-size=50M
journalctl --vacuum-time=20d


#Remove old log files
rm -f /var/log/*gz


#lastlog file (this file is bigger in size)
tar czvf /var/log/lastlog.tar.gz
rm -rf /var/log/lastlog



printf "Disk information\n"
df /dev/mapper/pve-root -h


#Cleaning is completed
echo "Proxmox Diskcleanup Sript successfully executed!"

 

[oguz]

Hi Oguz, Thanks for the info!
After compressing lastlog file then delete, then there is no auto created lastlog file. If its deleted won't be any problem ?

I have created a script for disk cleanup, would like to hear your input or any ideas will be highly appreciated.

#!/bin/sh

#set -e

printf "Disk information\n"
df /dev/mapper/pve-root -h

#Check the Drive Space Used by Cached Files
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives


#Systemd journal logs
journalctl --disk-usage
journalctl --rotate --vacuum-size=50M
journalctl --vacuum-time=20d


#Remove old log files
rm -f /var/log/*gz


#lastlog file (this file is bigger in size)
tar czvf /var/log/lastlog.tar.gz
rm -rf /var/log/lastlog



printf "Disk information\n"
df /dev/mapper/pve-root -h


#Cleaning is completed
echo "Proxmox Diskcleanup Sript successfully executed!"

you're missing the argument in the tar line, should be rather like: tar czvf /var/log/lastlog.tar.gz /var/log/lastlog

you could also add the current date into the name of the created archive file so you don't confuse it