Monitoring/root disk space

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This Icinga alert says the disk space on the / file system is too low.

Some things you can do are:

apt-get clean (deletes cached package files)
find largest files recursively using find and examine if any can be deleted
check /var/log/ and its sub directories for their sizes (du -hs *) and work your way down to find what is taking the most space
gzip or tar some (older) log files
move some files to /srv if that is mounted on a separate volume
create a ticket and/or ping somebody on IRC who is familiar with the service to see what can be deleted
create patches to add or improve logrotate setup
create tickets to request more disk space / hardware if really needed