Deleted Plugins is filling the disk space

Question

My server is in a virtual machine of XenServer in CentOS 7. I was testing the installation of plugins, when I wanted to uninstall this runningProcess-1.0 plugin, the uninstallation process never finished. I checked the disk space and saw that it was full, originally root (/) had 10 GB of space. I increased the space to 20GB, and went back to the process of uninstalling the plugin, the process was again loaded but never finished. I went back to check the disk space and saw that in a matter of seconds the 20GB space is full.

I checked the ocsweb database and this is the one that occupied the 16GB of space. I checked the plugins table and it was the heaviest.

I wanted to delete the table plugins, doing a drop table plugins, but the disk space did not decrease.

now I can not start OCS inventory, your help please what can I do?

Answer 1

After checking again, I realized that it was not the database that caused the disk space to be filled, but the apache server log file located at "/ var / log / httpd / error_log" which I weighed 17G, obviously there is something that was not right, since this happens every time I want to delete a plugin, however when I delete it, and restart the httpd service, I recover the disk space.

However I think that I damaged the database when I deleted the plugins table. :(

Showing you my evidences:

1) Disk 100% used 

2) Error_log size = 17GB 

3) Result after deleted and restart the service httpd:

Of course I couldn't open the error_log file with VIM because of the big size of the file, so I don't know why this error is happen. I will open a new thread to review this issue.

Answer 2

Hi,

use tail command to see file content when files are too bigger to be opened wtih vim.

tail -n 100 /var/log/httpd/error_log | more

Regards

Frank