On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Art Edwards wrote: > I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very > hard time trying to find out what is growing. Has anybody had the same > thing happen? I'm running potato (kernel 2.2.17) on both an athalon and > a pentium III machine (both are exhibiting the same engorgement.) > > BTW, what is the file kcore? It seems to be very big.
When was the last time you rebooted? How often do you upgrade? The reason I ask, is that there could still be daemons running, that are using old libraries. These libraries have been deleted from disk, but because a program is still using them, the kernel hasn't actually removed them from disk, but just the reference to them. You'll see this when you run a du, and it'll be smaller than what df tells you. ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO-----