i dont think it is the /var/logs and most of the other directories seem fine except the proc directory. When i scan that folder with du there are folder which i cant scan even as root.
Regards Bevan In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows? On 14 May 2012 09:25, C. Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<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 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected].**ac.nz <[email protected]> > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/**mailman/listinfo/linux-users<http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users> >
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