im2kul2@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd be GREATLY APRECIATED if someone could bail me out of this one! I
> logged into my server an hour ago just to find that the root partition
> is 100% filled:
>
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 34285296 32544556 0 100% /
>
> Because of that (I think), the data directory associated with my MySQL
> installation got shot (read: disappeared!).
>
> What would be the best way to recover the mysql data? The MySQL daemon
> isn't running, and I can't find anything under lost+found, either!
> Please help for I *really* need to get [some or most of] the data back!

Log in as root and ls to see what is filling it with du. I've had it happen on
a small drive and a cron task always failing (mrtg?) and it kept sending me
email about it failing. From that I learned to check root mail at least once a
year.

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