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Re: [LUG] Root room

 

On 9/20/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should I be worried? What happens if it gets full?

Things will (probably) break

Is this one single root / partition with everything under that or do
you have /homes etc somewhere else, i did not understand your
description.

Basicly is /var on that disk as this is all your logs and temp files

you can play hunt the offending disk wasters with the du command. Go
to a directory eg /

type

du * -s | grep sort -g

this will show you a sorted list of files and sub directorys and there
size (biggest at the bottom)

You might also have a large cache of rpm files some where in
/var/cache/???? that you have downloaded etc through a package
manager.

I have seen bad log rotate bugs on mandrake where once it would rotate
all logfiles and I think it managed to copy evey file in the log
directory every time it ran eg it doubled the number of files evey day
in /var/log/ my server quickly broke!



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Robin Cornelius
http://www.byteme.org.uk

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