df -h show system full even after clearing bloated log folder

Question

I had my php_errors.log file fill up the system, I deleted the error logs, but when I type

df -h www/folder_name
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
bindfs          7.8G  7.4G  379M  96% /www/folder_name

How do I clear it up

You had better use cd /www/folder_name; du -sh * to check which files cost such much on your disk. — Shui shengbao, Feb 23 '17 at 05:44
I'm voting to close this question as a duplicate of this site search. This question has been asked and answered many times already. — user9517, Feb 23 '17 at 07:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 05:20

0

Try walking the directory tree using:

du -h --max-depth=1 /www/folder_name

to figure out which directories are using the most space.

answered Feb 23 '17 at 05:20

TobiV

the sum total of all the files don't add up to 1.2GB this is why I'm worried
[ 473M ./vendor 12K ./nbproject 32K ./bootstrap 12K ./tests 468K ./database 6.1M ./.git 34M ./storage 25M ./public 1.8M ./resources 132K ./config 796K ./app 611M . ]
– Jon Awoyele Feb 26 '17 at 00:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 05:20

0

"df -h" only shows you the free space, which is has done. You have 379M free on that filesystem.

You may want to try something like "du -sh /www/folder_name/*" to determine what is using the space in that folder.

answered Feb 23 '17 at 05:20

Tin

2 Answers2