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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.
joelb
Nov 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 total
root@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
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