Running multiple Python programs fills up /dev/mapper/gregorbr--lnx--vg-root 55G 52G 55M 100% /

I have a ubuntu server 12.04.5 LTS that I use to run multiple python programs that uses ssh. I have it set up so it just prints to screen, so it shouldn't take up any space at all.

Here is they stats when I first SSH into it:

 System load: 0.0 Processes: 250 Usage of /: 94.8% of 54.52GB Users logged in: 2 Memory usage: 11% IP address for eth0: 172.18.137.9 Swap usage: 0% IP address for eth1: 10.17.9.222

The output of df -h:

/dev/mapper/gregorbr--lnx--vg-root 55G 52G 55M 100% /
udev 5.9G 4.0K 5.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.2G 716K 1.2G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 5.9G 144K 5.9G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 236M 32M 192M 14% /boot

Once I reboot the box I get all of the free space back, is there a way I can get the hard disk without rebooting it? I have no large files on the server and the program doesn't save anything so what is taking up space so I can't figure out what is taking up space on the server.

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I suggest you use either df or the disk usage analyzer to find which files are taking up all of the space. Then you can figure out what's creating them.

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