root file system is full

[altaf.walge]

Hi,

I am using RHEL 3 , My root file system is showing 100% consumed
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/Volume00/LogVol00
5.8G 5.8G 0 100% /
/dev/sda1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot
none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/Volume00/LogVol03
2.0G 33M 1.8G 2% /tmp
/dev/Volume00/LogVol01
39G 9.1G 28G 25% /user
/dev/Volume00/LogVol02
49G 8.1G 38G 18% /user1
/dev/Volume00/LogVol04
36G 4.6G 30G 14% /user2
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I am getting certain panic messages during start up

now how to resolve this issue , how do I find out which is the file which is flooding the root partition

urgent help needed pls

Altaf

[bigtomrodney]

If you can boot from a livecd and check out your filesystem you might want to have a look at /var and specifically /var/logs for old log archives. In a terminal run du -h from your root partition and see what is using the most space.