Jim Beard wrote:
> 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?
Possibly a deleted file that's still open to one or more processes.
Find it like this.
# ls -l /proc/*/fd | grep /var
# ls -l /proc/*/fd | grep '/var.*deleted'
# ls -l /proc/*/fd | less +/'\/var.*deleted'
You'll probably have to kill the process.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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