Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

[Craig Sprout]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> Craig,
> 
> Thank you...that information helps me make sense of a few things, but now
> I'm really stumped cause all that being the case what the heck is eating
> up all the space on the "/"? I can't find any large files anywhere except
> there, and this whole thing started yesterday on this machine just after a
> run-away MySQL process took off. I had to reboot the machine to kill the
> process and /dev/hda1 ("/") has been at 99% since then. Since this has
> only happened once before AND on a Mandrake system I'm really at a loss as
> to what to do about it.

The only other thing /I/ can think of has already been suggested.  I had
a 7.2 box with a runaway logrotate, and had about a kazillion
.gz.1.gz.gz.gz files in the /var/log/mail and /var/log/news
directories.  (kazillion = "enough files so that `rm -rf *' died with
'Too many parameters'")

Someone far smarter than me can probably elaborate on this, but you
might try using `find' to have a look at what is taking up so much
space:

find /var -type f -size 100k -name "*"

You can tweak the size parameter for something bigger/smaller to your
taste.  Or you can change /var to / to get the whole mess of files.

-- 
Craig Sprout
Network Administrator
Crown Parts and Machine, Inc.
http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com/