Re: [LUG] huge file recurring, hiding

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

not 100% sure but doesn't the near full usage of / look bad.

i've heard unix admins talking about 'protecting root' and that if it 
ever ran out if space the system could be trashed,

maybe it ran out at some point,

kev

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 00:32, you wrote:
>
> du has not been helpful.
> nor has find all todays files and order by size.  It is hiding.
>
>
> > Anyway, what are the observed symptoms that lead you to this conclusion?
> > Sounds improbable to me, although a corrupted filesystem can lead to
> > things that seem highly improbable.  Have you fsckd it?
>
>
> akm@xxxxxxx:~ > df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              36G   35G  133M 100% /
> /dev/hda1              23M  5.4M   16M  25% /boot
> /dev/hdb1              19G   11G  8.1G  57% /2
> shmfs                 356M     0  356M   0% /dev/shm
> //jupiter/vpop3       4.0G  3.9G  118M  98% /mnt/mail
> /dev/hdc              647M  647M     0 100% /media/cdrom
>
> Not fsckd because if possible I want to keep the system up, fix it, and then 
> set up something to observe it before it gets to critical size again and deal 
> with it.
>
>
> > Again, filesystem damage springs to mind, but another observation is
> > that if you delete a file that something has open, you delete the
> > filesystem reference, but the OS can't reclaim its space until
> > the application closes it.  In the case of ~/.Xsession-errors,
> > dropping to the commandline and deleting it from there would
> > fix that particular problem.
>
>
> I expected it to...



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