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joelb
Nov 13, 2016Aspirant
System volume root's usage is 92%.
Hello All, I have been getting the "Volume: System volume root's usage is 92%..." message for a few weeks. It started at about 81%. When it reached 92% I uninstalled all the apps ( I had installe...
- Nov 16, 2016
This is now resolved. MySQL and apps that were using it have been removed.
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 14, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Well what's under /var/lib ?
# du -csh /var/lib/*
If it's say a large MySQL database it is possible to move the databases to the data volume and use a symlink to the location on the data volume.
- joelbNov 14, 2016Aspirant
Yes it is a mysql file that is gorwing. I think it has stopped growing, probably after I uninstalled all the applications. It looks like it is the ibdata1 file that is the problem. Do you know what is stored in this db file? Is it possible to purge the content of the file without ill effect? Or is it better to do as you suggest?
I'm a newbie but I can follow instructions.
Thank you very much for your help!
root@NASSB:~# du -csh /var/lib/*
68M /var/lib/apt
48K /var/lib/connman
4.0K /var/lib/dbus
11M /var/lib/dpkg
4.0K /var/lib/initscripts
4.0K /var/lib/insserv
4.0K /var/lib/libuuid
8.0K /var/lib/logrotate
8.0K /var/lib/mdadm
4.0K /var/lib/misc
2.7G /var/lib/mysql
16K /var/lib/nfs
4.0K /var/lib/nut
28K /var/lib/pam
32K /var/lib/php5
4.0K /var/lib/random-seed
4.0K /var/lib/readyNASVault.version
4.0K /var/lib/replisync
2.6M /var/lib/samba
4.0K /var/lib/snmp
136K /var/lib/systemd
124K /var/lib/ucf
4.0K /var/lib/update-rc.d
4.0K /var/lib/urandom
8.0K /var/lib/vim
2.8G totalroot@NASSB:~# ls -csh /var/lib/mysql/
total 2.7G
5.0M ib_logfile0 4.0K Syslog 4.0K performance_schema
2.7G ibdata1 4.0K mysql_upgrade_info 0 debian-5.5.flag
5.0M ib_logfile1 4.0K mysql- mdgm-ntgrNov 14, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
What's the output of the following?:
# dpkg -l
- joelbNov 14, 2016Aspirant
Hi mdgm,
The outpost is too long to fit in one message. Here is the the first part of the output.
root@NASSB:~# dpkg -l
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii acl 2.2.52-2 armel Access control list utilities
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 all add and remove users and groups
ii apache2 2.2.31-0.net armel Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii apache2-mpm-pr 2.2.31-0.net armel Apache HTTP Server - traditional
ii apache2-utils 2.4.10-10+de armel Apache HTTP Server (utility progr
ii apache2.2-bin 2.2.31-0.net armel Apache HTTP Server common binary
ii apache2.2-comm 2.2.31-0.net armel Apache HTTP Server common files
ii apt 1.0.9.8.3 armel commandline package manager
ii attr 1:2.4.47-2 armel Utilities for manipulating filesy
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.32-0.net armel Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii base-files 8+deb8u6 armel Debian base system miscellaneous
ii base-passwd 3.5.37 armel Debian base system master passwor
ii bash 4.3-11+b1 armel GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii bind9-host 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel Version of 'host' bundled with BI
ii bsdtar 3.1.2-11+deb armel Implementation of the 'tar' progr
ii bsdutils 1:2.25.2-6.n armel basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii btrfs-tools 4.7.3-netgea armel Checksumming Copy on Write Filesy
ii busybox 1:1.22.0-9+d armel Tiny utilities for small and embe
ii busybox-cpio 1:1.22.0-4.n all cpio -- a program to manage archi
ii busybox-dnsuti 1:1.22.0-4.n all DNS utilities
ii busybox-less 1:1.22.0-4.n all pager program similar to more
ii busybox-ping 1:1.22.0-4.n all Tools to test the reachability of
ii busybox-tftp 1:1.22.0-4.n all TFTP client utility
ii busybox-unzip 1:1.22.0-4.n all De-archiver for .zip files
ii ca-certificate 20141019+deb all Common CA certificates
ii cifs-utils 2:6.4-1 armel Common Internet File System utili
ii complete-flash 1.0 armel Tool to complete flash updates be
ii connman 1.33-netgear armel Intel Connection Manager daemon
ii coreutils 8.23-4 armel GNU core utilities
ii cron 3.0pl1-127.n armel process scheduling daemon
ii cryptsetup-bin 2:1.6.6-5 armel disk encryption support - command
ii ctavbase 5.4.22 armel ctavbase
ii ctscand 3.9 armel ctscand
ii curl 7.50.3-0.net armel command line tool for transferrin
ii dash 0.5.7-4+b1 armel POSIX-compliant shell
ii dbconfig-commo 1.8.47+nmu1 all common framework for packaging da
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb armel simple interprocess messaging sys
ii debconf 1.5.56 all Debian configuration management s
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.56 all full internationalization support
ii debian-archive 2014.3 all GnuPG archive keys of the Debian
ii debianutils 4.4+b1 armel Miscellaneous utilities specific
ii diffutils 1:3.3-1+b1 armel File comparison utilities
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.90-2. armel Linux Kernel Device Mapper usersp
ii dosfstools 3.0.27-1 armel utilities for making and checking
ii dpkg 1.17.27 armel Debian package management system
ii dropbear 2016.73-netg armel lightweight SSH2 server and clien
ii e2fslibs:armel 1.42.13-1.ne armel ext2/ext3/ext4 file system librar
ii e2fsprogs 1.42.13-1.ne armel ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilit
ii ethtool 1:3.16-1 armel display or change Ethernet device
ii findutils 4.4.2-9+b1 armel utilities for finding files--find
ii fontconfig-con 2.11.0-6.3+d all generic font configuration librar
ii forked-daapd 23.4-netgear armel DAAP/DACP (iTunes) server, suppor
ii freeapp-collec 1478632140 armel ReadyNASOS Application Collection
ii gcc-4.9-base:a 4.9.2-10 armel GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
ii gdisk 0.8.10-2 armel GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning
ii gnupg 1.4.18-7+deb armel GNU privacy guard - a free PGP re
ii gpgv 1.4.18-7+deb armel GNU privacy guard - signature ver
ii gphoto2 2.5.8-1.netg armel digital camera command-line clien
ii grep 2.20-4.1 armel GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii gzip 1.6-4 armel GNU compression utilities
ii hdparm 9.43-2 armel tune hard disk parameters for hig
ii hfsprogs 332.25-11 armel mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ fi
ii hostname 3.15 armel utility to set/show the host name
ii init-system-he 1.22 all helper tools for all init systems
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 armel scripts for initializing and shut
ii inotify-tools 3.14-1+b1 armel command-line programs providing a
ii insserv 1.14.0-5 armel boot sequence organizer using LSB
ii iptables 1.4.21-2+b1 armel administration tools for packet f
ii kmod 18-3 armel tools for managing Linux kernel m
ii leafp2p:armel 2.1.7-1 armel P2P functionality for addons and
ii libacl1:armel 2.2.52-2 armel Access control list shared librar
ii libaio1:armel 0.3.110-1 armel Linux kernel AIO access library -
ii libantlr3c-3.2 3.2-3 armel ANTLR v3 parser generator C runti
ii libapache2-mod 1.0.6 armel mod_auth_token is a famous apache
ii libapache2-mod 3.2.6-1.netg armel authenticate Apache against exter
ii libapache2-mod 1.0.3-1.netg armel access control based on on unix g
ii libapache2-mod 5.6.24+dfsg- armel server-side, HTML-embedded script
ii libapparmor1:a 2.10.95-4~bp armel changehat AppArmor library
ii libapr1:armel 1.5.1-3 armel Apache Portable Runtime Library
ii libaprutil1:ar 1.5.4-1 armel Apache Portable Runtime Utility L
ii libaprutil1-db 1.5.4-1 armel Apache Portable Runtime Utility L
ii libaprutil1-ld 1.5.4-1 armel Apache Portable Runtime Utility L
ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.3 armel package management runtime librar
ii libarchive13:a 3.1.2-11+deb armel Multi-format archive and compress
ii libasound2:arm 1.0.28-1 armel shared library for ALSA applicati
ii libasound2-dat 1.0.28-1 all Configuration files and profiles
ii libattr1:armel 1:2.4.47-2 armel Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudit-commo 1:2.4-1 all Dynamic library for security audi
ii libaudit1:arme 1:2.4-1+b1 armel Dynamic library for security audi
ii libavahi-clien 0.6.32-0.net armel Avahi client library
ii libavahi-commo 0.6.32-0.net armel Avahi common data files
ii libavahi-commo 0.6.32-0.net armel Avahi common library
ii libavahi-core7 0.6.32-0.net armel Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD li
ii libavcodec56:a 7:2.8.6-netg armel Library to encode decode multimed
ii libavfilter5:a 7:2.8.6-netg armel FFmpeg filter library.
ii libavformat56: 7:2.8.6-netg armel FFmpeg file format library.
ii libavutil54:ar 7:2.8.6-netg armel FFmpeg avutil library - runtime f
ii libbind9-90 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
ii libblkid1:arme 2.25.2-6.net armel block device id library
ii libbluetooth3: 5.40-0.netge armel Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bl
ii libboost-atomi 1.55.0+dfsg- armel atomic data types, operations, an
ii libboost-syste 1.55.0+dfsg- armel Operating system (e.g. diagnostic
ii libboost-threa 1.55.0+dfsg- armel portable C++ multi-threading
ii libbsd0:armel 0.7.0-2 armel utility functions from BSD system
ii libbz2-1.0:arm 1.0.6-7+b3 armel high-quality block-sorting file c
ii libc-bin 2.19-18+deb8 armel GNU C Library: Binaries
ii libc6:armel 2.19-18+deb8 armel GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcap-ng0:arm 0.7.4-2 armel An alternate POSIX capabilities l
ii libcap2:armel 1:2.24-8 armel POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (libra
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8 armel POSIX 1003.1e capabilities (utili
ii libcgicc5:arme 3.2.9-3.netg armel C++ class library for writing CGI
ii libclass-isa-p 0.36-3 all report the search path for a clas
ii libcomerr2:arm 1.42.13-1.ne armel common error description library
ii libconfuse-com 2.7-5 all Common files for libConfuse
ii libconfuse0:ar 2.7-5 armel Library for parsing configuration
ii libcrypto++9 5.6.1-6+deb8 armel General purpose cryptographic lib
ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-5 armel disk encryption support - shared
ii libcsv3:armel 3.0.3+dfsg-2 armel CSV parser and writer library
ii libcups2:armel 1.7.5-11+deb armel Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcurl3:armel 7.50.3-0.net armel easy-to-use client-side URL trans
ii libdaemon0:arm 0.14-6 armel lightweight C library for daemons
ii libdb5.1:armel 5.1.29-5 armel Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries
ii libdb5.3:armel 5.3.28-9 armel Berkeley v5.3 Database Libraries
ii libdbd-mysql-p 4.028-2+deb8 armel Perl5 database interface to the M
ii libdbi-perl 1.631-3+b1 armel Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii libdbus-1-3:ar 1.8.20-0+deb armel simple interprocess messaging sys
ii libdebconfclie 0.192 armel Debian Configuration Management S
ii libdevmapper1. 2:1.02.90-2. armel Linux Kernel Device Mapper usersp
ii libdns100 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel DNS Shared Library used by BIND
ii libedit2:armel 3.1-20140620 armel BSD editline and history librarie
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stabl armel Asynchronous event notification l
ii libevent-core- 1.4.13-stabl armel An asynchronous event notificatio
ii libexif12:arme 0.6.21-2 armel library to parse EXIF files
ii libexiv2-12 0.23-1 armel EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation l
ii libexpat1:arme 2.1.0-6+deb8 armel XML parsing C library - runtime l
ii libffi6:armel 3.1-2+b2 armel Foreign Function Interface librar
ii libflac8:armel 1.3.0-3 armel Free Lossless Audio Codec - runti
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3+d armel generic font configuration librar
ii libfreetype6:a 2.5.2-3+deb8 armel FreeType 2 font engine, shared li
ii libgcc1:armel 1:4.9.2-10 armel GCC support library
ii libgcrypt11:ar 1.5.0-5+deb7 armel LGPL Crypto library - runtime lib
ii libgcrypt20:ar 1.6.3-2+deb8 armel LGPL Crypto library - runtime lib
ii libgd2-xpm:arm 2.0.36~rc1~d armel GD Graphics Library version 2
ii libgd3:armel 2.1.0-5+deb8 armel GD Graphics Library
ii libgdbm3:armel 1.8.3-11 armel GNU dbm database routines (runtim
ii libgeoip1:arme 1.6.2-4 armel non-DNS IP-to-country resolver li
ii libglib2.0-0:a 2.48.0-1~bpo armel GLib library of C routines
ii libgmp10:armel 2:6.0.0+dfsg armel Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libgnutls-deb0 3.3.8-6+deb8 armel GNU TLS library - main runtime li
ii libgnutls26:ar 2.12.23-13 armel GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0: 1.17-3 armel library for common error values a
ii libgphoto2-6:a 2.5.10-3.net armel gphoto2 digital camera library
ii libgphoto2-por 2.5.10-3.net armel gphoto2 digital camera port libra
ii libgsasl7 1.8.0-6 armel GNU SASL library
ii libgsoap5:arme 2.8.17-1 armel Runtime libraries for gSOAP
ii libgssapi-krb5 1.12.1+dfsg- armel MIT Kerberos runtime libraries -
ii libhogweed2:ar 2.7.1-5+deb8 armel low level cryptographic library (
ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-11 armel ID3 tag reading library from the
ii libidn11:armel 1.29-1+deb8u armel GNU Libidn library, implementatio
ii libinotifytool 3.14-1+b1 armel utility wrapper around inotify
ii libisc95 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel ISC Shared Library used by BIND
ii libisccc90 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel Command Channel Library used by B
ii libisccfg90 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel Config File Handling Library used
ii libjbig0:armel 2.1-3.1 armel JBIGkit libraries
ii libjpeg-turbo8 1.4.0-0.netg armel IJG JPEG compliant runtime librar
ii libjpeg62-turb 1:1.3.1-12 armel libjpeg-turbo JPEG runtime librar
ii libjpeg8 8d1-netgear1 all Independent JPEG Group's JPEG run
ii libjson-c2:arm 0.11-4 armel JSON manipulation library - share
ii libjson7:armel 7.6.1-netgea armel JSON reader and writer
ii libk5crypto3:a 1.12.1+dfsg- armel MIT Kerberos runtime libraries -
ii libkeyutils1:a 1.5.9-5+b1 armel Linux Key Management Utilities (l
ii libkmod2:armel 18-3 armel libkmod shared library
ii libkrb5-3:arme 1.12.1+dfsg- armel MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libkrb5support 1.12.1+dfsg- armel MIT Kerberos runtime libraries -
ii libldap-2.4-2: 2.4.40+dfsg- armel OpenLDAP libraries
ii libldb1:armel 2:1.1.26-1 armel LDAP-like embedded database - sha
ii libllconf0:arm 0.4.6-netgea armel lossless configuration file parse
ii liblocale-gett 1.05-8+b1 armel module using libc functions for i
ii libltdl7:armel 2.4.2-1.11 armel System independent dlopen wrapper
ii liblua5.1-0:ar 5.1.5-7.1 armel Shared library for the Lua interp
ii liblwres90 1:9.9.5.dfsg armel Lightweight Resolver Library used
ii liblz4-1:armel 0.0~r131-2 armel Fast LZ compression algorithm lib
ii liblz4-tool 0.0~r131-2 armel Fast LZ compression algorithm lib
ii liblzma5:armel 5.1.1alpha+2 armel XZ-format compression library
ii liblzo2-2:arme 2.08-1.2 armel data compression library
ii libmagic1:arme 5.11-2+deb7u armel File type determination library u
ii libmount1:arme 2.25.2-6.net armel device mounting library
ii libmp3lame0:ar 3.99.5+repac armel MP3 encoding library
ii libmxml1 2.6-2 armel small XML parsing library (runtim
ii libmysqlclient 5.5.46-0+deb armel MySQL database client library
ii libncurses5:ar 5.9+20140913 armel shared libraries for terminal han
ii libncursesw5:a 5.9+20140913 armel shared libraries for terminal han
ii libnettle4:arm 2.7.1-5+deb8 armel low level cryptographic library (
ii libnfnetlink0: 1.0.1-3 armel Netfilter netlink library
ii libnfsidmap2:a 0.25-5 armel NFS idmapping library
ii libnl1:armel 1.1-7 armel library for dealing with netlink
ii libnml 197 armel ReadyNAS NML library
ii libnss-llmnr:a 0.10-netgear armel NSS module for Link-local Multica
ii libnss-mdns:ar 0.10-6 armel NSS module for Multicast DNS name
ii libnss-myhostn 230-7~bpo8+2 armel nss module providing fallback res
ii libnss-winbind 2:4.4.5-netg armel Samba nameservice integration plu
ii libntfs-3g851 1:2014.2.15A armel read/write NTFS driver for FUSE
ii libntlm0:armel 1.4-3 armel NTLM authentication library
ii libogg0:armel 1.3.2-1 armel Ogg bitstream library
ii libonig2:armel 5.9.5-3.2 armel Oniguruma regular expressions lib
ii libp11-kit0:ar 0.20.7-1 armel Library for loading and coordinat
ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.1+de armel Pluggable Authentication Modules
ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.1+de armel Pluggable Authentication Modules
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.1+de all Runtime support for the PAM libra
ii libpam0g:armel 1.1.8-3.1+de armel Pluggable Authentication Modules
ii libpci3:armel 1:3.2.1-3 armel Linux PCI Utilities (shared libra
ii libpcre3:armel 2:8.35-3.3+d armel Perl 5 Compatible Regular Express
ii libperl5.20 5.20.2-3+deb armel shared Perl library
ii libpng12-0:arm 1.2.50-2+deb armel PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0:armel 1.16-10 armel lib for parsing cmdline parameter
ii libprocps3:arm 2:3.3.9-9 armel library for accessing process inf
ii libqdbm14 1.8.78-2 armel QDBM Database Libraries without G
ii libraw10:armel 0.16.0-9+deb armel raw image decoder library
ii librddclient 5903 armel ReadyNAS system control daemon cl
ii libreadline6:a 6.3-8+b3 armel GNU readline and history librarie
ii librnimage1 1.0.1 armel ReadyNAS Imaging library
ii libsasl2-2:arm 2.1.26.dfsg1 armel Cyrus SASL - authentication abstr
ii libsasl2-modul 2.1.26.dfsg1 armel Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentica
ii libseccomp2:ar 2.2.3-3~bpo8 armel high level interface to Linux sec
ii libselinux1:ar 2.3-2 armel SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libsemanage-co 2.3-1 all Common files for SELinux policy m
ii libsemanage1:a 2.3-1+b1 armel SELinux policy management library
ii libsensors4:ar 1:3.4.0-3.ne armel library to read temperature/volta
ii libsepol1:arme 2.3-2 armel SELinux library for manipulating
ii libsgutils2-2: 1.42-2.netge armel utilities for devices using the S
ii libslang2:arme 2.3.0-2 armel S-Lang programming library - runt
ii libsmartcols1: 2.25.2-6.net armel smart column output alignment lib
ii libsmbclient:a 2:4.4.5-netg armel shared library for communication
ii libsnmp-base 5.7.2.1+dfsg all SNMP configuration script, MIBs a
ii libsnmp30:arme 5.7.2.1+dfsg armel SNMP (Simple Network Management P
ii libsqlite3-0:a 3.14.2-0.net armel SQLite 3 shared library
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