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mstnorris's avatar

Stuck on Deploy, can't change directory when SSH'd in

My site is stuck on deployment.

When I SSH into the box (Digital Ocean provisioned by Forge) I cannot cd into the domain. It shows that I am using 94% of my 40GB. I don't see how that is possible. Where is all the stuff coming from? How do I see what's taking up all that space?

I'm trying to cd into my getwhiteboard.com domain, but when I type cd ge and then hit tab, I get the following error.

forge@mydomain:~$ cd ge-bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
-bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device
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mstnorris's avatar

/tmp is using less than 1% of the space, /dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT is using 100%, this is an alias to /dev. There is no way I have 40GB of stuff, how can I free up space? What is safe to delete?

SaeedPrez's avatar

Try du -h /dev, it will show disk usage. See if you can find what is causing it.

SaeedPrez's avatar

Check this out, someone has similar problem on DigitalOcean. It also has link to a fix I believe.

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