On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:04:43 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have a newish suse 10.3 box acting as a file server that I ssh > into to check for data backups each morning. Yesterday it was extremely > slow to accept the password (maybe 2 minutes) and I then see that the > boot partition that normally has plenty of space is full: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 19228180 19226164 0 100% / > > This happened a couple of weeks previously, a reboot freed up the > space. I am trying to discover what has happened and rectify all via > command line without resorting to turning on the monitor still attached > and using KDE tools to find out what is filling up the partition. And > also to prevent the situation in future. My immediate thought is what > might be happening in /tmp but I don't know enough commands to see where > the file hogs are - do I have lots of little files filling up logs? or > a few very large files? A listing of /tmp doesn't appear to give me the > size of the contents of sub-folders. > > jupiter:/tmp # ls -al > total 96 > drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 20480 2007-10-24 08:45 . > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2007-10-15 13:42 .. > drwx------ 3 beagleindex root 4096 2007-07-24 16:00 > .beagleindexwapi.jKxRZ12051 > drwx------ 3 roger users 4096 2007-10-15 16:00 gconfd-roger > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 1970-01-01 12:00 gconfd-root > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-10-16 09:03 .ICE-unix > drwx------ 2 roger users 4096 2007-10-17 12:21 kde-roger > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-10-16 09:04 kde-root > drwx------ 3 roger users 4096 2007-10-23 12:08 ksocket-roger > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-10-16 11:19 ksocket-root > drwx------ 2 roger users 4096 2007-10-15 16:00 orbit-roger > drwx------ 2 roger users 4096 2007-08-23 09:37 ssh-dxsfO3874 > drwx------ 2 roger users 4096 2007-10-15 15:05 vmware-roger > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-15 16:00 .webmin > -r--r--r-- 1 root users 11 2007-10-15 13:44 .X0-lock > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-10-15 13:44 .X11-unix > -rw------- 1 root root 52 2007-10-15 16:00 xauth.XXXX1Ux4oT > -rw------- 1 root root 52 2007-10-16 09:03 xauth.XXXXBszOCc > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-09-18 11:05 YaST2-24051-LcDiM5 > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-09-18 11:05 YaST2-24051-vZdQh1 > > Maybe I'm off track with this? This is the same box that had the time > drift issue until I put the "ntp restart" every 10 minutes into cron. > Is this filling up some log somewhere? Any pointers greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Roger > du -sh /* should give you some idea of which directories contain all your disk space. Modify as necessary... Steve
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