but cant find any other source that would fill up the root drive. note my home parition is a separate partition and i have three ntfs partitions ( which i am attempting to condense and move over to ext4 partition
Regards Bevan In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows? On 15 May 2012 10:08, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > That's because it's full of 'files' that are actually devices. You > shouldn't scan /dev either. > > Steve > > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:14 +1200, Bevan wrote: > > 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 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] > > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > -- > Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> > http://www.greengecko.co.nz > MSN: [email protected] > Skype: sholdowa > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > >
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