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Your linux vps disk space is full, how to check it. The disk space is full because of some reasons like the log file or spam email.

Step 1: ssh to your server as root

Step 2: change dir to /

cd /

Step 3: check disk usage:

du -hs *

If you use the below command successfully, you can determine the largest subdirectory. Here is `home` subdirectory.

[root@tutorialspots.com /]# du -hs *
0       aquota.group
0       aquota.user
5.8M    bin
144K    boot
4.0K    command
132K    dev
16M     etc
10G     home
208K    kloxo-install
27M     lib
4.0K    media
4.0K    mnt
4.0K    opt
0       proc
40K     root
25M     sbin
284K    script
4.0K    selinux
4.0K    service
4.0K    srv
0       sys
90M     targz1
32K     tmp
1.6G    usr
1.5G    var

You you set an error like crash memory. Suppose that you get the result:

[root@tutorialspots.com/]# du -hs *
0       aquota.group
0       aquota.user
5.8M    bin
144K    boot
4.0K    command
132K    dev
16M     etc
10G     home
208K    kloxo-install
27M     lib
4.0K    media
4.0K    mnt
4.0K    opt
0       proc
40K     root
25M     sbin
284K    script
4.0K    selinux
4.0K    service
4.0K    srv
0       sys
90M     targz1
32K     tmp
1.6G    usr
error

Find the next subdirectory after the `usr` subdirectory . Here is `var` subdirectory:

Step 4: change directory to the largest subdirectory. And do the loop with step 3, you can find the largest file (subdirectory).

cd var

Step 5: Delete file or subdirectory…

rm -rf /var/qmail/queue/