{"id":2595,"date":"2023-05-14T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antpace.com\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:04:58","slug":"diagnosing-and-resolving-disk-space-issues-on-aws-ec2-with-mariadb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antpace.com\/blog\/diagnosing-and-resolving-disk-space-issues-on-aws-ec2-with-mariadb\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing and Resolving Disk Space Issues on AWS EC2 with MariaDB"},"content":{"rendered":"

I run this website on a t2.micro EC2 instance. It only has 8 gigabytes of storage space. The blog runs on WordPress. I tried creating a new post recently, but it wouldn’t let me publish.<\/p>\n

A vague message told me I was “editing the page that shows your latest posts” – even though I wasn’t. I checked the dashboard site health, and noticed that somethings needed updating, but disk space was critically low.<\/p>\n

\"WordPress<\/p>\n

I SSH’d into the instance was able to confirm that 100% of the 8 gigabytes was in use: `df -h`<\/span><\/p>\n

\"hardrive<\/p>\n

I was able to use the ‘disk usage’ command to drill down and find large directories: ‘sudo du<\/span> -h –max-depth=1 \/var’. I was able to clean up unused\u00a0yum<\/em> packages, logs, and cache to clear up over a gigabyte of space.<\/p>\n

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M\nsudo yum clean all\nrm -rf \/var\/cache\/yum\n<\/pre>\n
It looks like there are some database files that could be cleaned up too, but I’ll wait for now. I think my next course of action, when this inevitably happens again, will be to increase my disk space by expanding my EBS volume and resizing the file system.<\/p>\n
Playing with databases and storage can be dangerous. Make sure you always have a back-up strategy and disaster recovery plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I run this website on a t2.micro EC2 instance. It only has 8 gigabytes of storage space. The blog runs on WordPress. I tried creating a new post recently, but it wouldn’t let me publish. A vague message told me I was “editing the page that shows your latest posts” – even though I wasn’t. … <\/p>\n
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