the really weird thing is that it happens in the morning when come back to the computer. I don't turn it off at night and that is when i find it almost full, the only process i have set up to start in the morning is a cron job of a script to act like an alarm clock playing a piece of music to wake me up Regards
Bevan In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows? On 21 May 2012 09:14, C. Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee Begg wrote, On 05/18/2012 03:54 PM: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 09:07:08 Steve Holdoway wrote: >> >>> The only thing that gets cleared down on a reboot ( by default! ) >>> is /tmp. Nothing else gets touched. >>> >> That's not quite the whole picture. >> >> If you are doing regular software updates, extra disk space will be used >> by >> the currently in use files until they are released, which happens as they >> are >> shutdown and closed by programs (for example). Even logging out and back >> in >> again sometimes regains 20-50MB after an apt-get dist-upgrade (on sid) >> for me. >> Updating the kernel I find consumes about 15MB until I reboot. OpenOffice >> and >> Chromium use more. >> There are other reasons this can happen in addition to software updates, >> but >> they should be more rare. >> > I had a weird one on my home pfsense firewall... /var is only about 60 > Mbytes, and it was over-full. As in 109% filled. > But a du -shc /var returned 8.9 Mbytes in use. > > Turns out that a process of iplog was running but the package had been > uninstalled so it was somehow able to write files into /var and immediately > delete them, but was not able to clean up the file handle so the disk was > slowly being eaten. > > Killing iplog was enough to free the file handles and all is well. > > > -- > 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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