I'm working on a RedHat 7.3 system and am experiencing some strange behavior. The /var partition keeps filling up. Since logs etc, get written there I'm not surprised that it might fill up fast, however.... df, tells me the partition is 2.5 gigs... when I started addressing this problem the size of /var was 1.8 gig. I used 'du -h --max-depth=1' so I so I could see the sizes of the first level of directories etc... Now, when I find some files I can delete, say old log files, maybe 300 Megs worth, and remove them, it takes about 30 seconds for 'df' to show the space used as 100% on /var... I've watched it go 96%, *pause for 2 seconds*, 97%, * pause for 2 more seconds*, 98% .. etc ... So now I'm stuck, left with a 1.4 gig /var directory, which df says is full of 2.5 gigs worth of stuff... and I can't, for the life of me, figure out where this new data is being written....
Any advice?
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