Bevan Thomas wrote, On 05/14/2012 07:54 AM:
dont know what it is but not sure if it was an update or not but there
is a program stealing bytes of space and filling up my system
partition. When i restart it clears and starts filling up again. It
seems to do it at bytes at a time, so over a day or so i have a full
partition until i restart again.
Can some one help me step the process to find this rouge program or
process?
running ubuntu 12.04
First, do a df -h and post the output so we can see where the
data is.
Then its a series of du -s / | sort -n | tail to see the top
10 directories.
cd into that directory and repeat.
I suspect you'll find /var/log/ is the likely cause.
Find the log file that's growing fast, find out what's filling it, and fix.
Then delete the log file and restart syslog or rsyslog to release the
file handle and the space.
http://shell.clug.org.nz/caffeine-var.png this shows two years of my
/var usage, and when the earthquakes took out power.
(btw "rogue" unless you mean a kind of makeup)
--
Craig Falconer
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