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I suppose you can run this command at the root of the directory you suspect the most space usage on<br />
du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11
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I suppose you can run this command at the root of the directory you suspect the most space usage on
du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11

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I have inherited an existing application hosted on an AWS EC2 C5 instance that appears to have run out of disk space on its attached EBS volume. <br />
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I am looking for guidance for:<br />
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1. Safely increasing the volume size on AWS without loosing the application running there on Linux.<br />
2. Determining why the volume is full. There appear to be some very large Mongodb journal files, but I am not confident that is the total cause, although this application hasn't had activity for over a year.<br />
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Thanks
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I have inherited an existing application hosted on an AWS EC2 C5 instance that appears to have run out of disk space on its attached EBS volume. 

I am looking for guidance for:

1. Safely increasing the volume size on AWS without loosing the application running there on Linux.
2. Determining why the volume is full. There appear to be some very large Mongodb journal files, but I am not confident that is the total cause, although this application hasn't had activity for over a year.

Thanks

AWS Bitnami MEAN instance out of space

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