# Disk full on a production server: recovery runbook

Source: https://srvscripts.com/guides/runbook-disk-full/
Updated: 2026-10-03
Publisher: srvScripts (https://srvscripts.com/)

A recovery runbook for a disk full on a production server: safe space to free first, inode exhaustion, what never to delete, and how to bring MySQL, Exim and Dovecot back cleanly after ENOSPC.

The full guide is for srvScripts members: https://srvscripts.com/guides/runbook-disk-full/