Well, that was a good idea thanks for it, but no luck. I`ve killed and start again every process listed in fstat but the amount of used space has not drop. I`ve forgot to mention that I use 4.6-stable with GENERIC kernel.
/dev/wd0a 1005M 274M 680M 29% / 2009/12/18 Joachim Schipper <[email protected]> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Daniel Zhelev wrote: > > Hello list. > > I`ve set up a little bash script to tell me when some file system is > > over 95% full and after a month I got a mail about my root file system > > ( / ) after log in I sow that the root file system is over 100%. That > > is fine I tried to do a search for big and nasty files and so on but > > after a hour magically the file system was at 20%. That got me very > > worried about any security issue, but nothing was missing and so on. > > The issue is that the file system continues to grow about a 2 presents > > a day, which is strange. > > > Here is some output: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/wd0a 1005M 251M 704M 26% / > > /dev/wd0k 46.7G 26.0K 44.4G 0% /home > > /dev/wd0d 3.9G 8.0K 3.7G 0% /tmp > > /dev/wd0f 2.0G 615M 1.3G 32% /usr > > /dev/wd0g 1005M 145M 809M 15% /usr/X11R6 > > /dev/wd0h 5.4G 206M 5.0G 4% /usr/local > > /dev/wd0i 2.0G 619M 1.3G 32% /usr/src > > /dev/wd0e 8.9G 585M 7.8G 7% /var > > /dev/wd0j 2.0G 961M 951M 50% /usr/obj > > /dev/wd1a 295G 562M 280G 0% /storage/storages > > /dev/wd1b 110G 20.7G 83.7G 20% /storage/windows > > > > r...@sgate:/root# find / -xdev -size +1000 -type f | xargs ls -laSh > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6.9M Nov 25 16:39 /bsd > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6.9M Nov 25 14:16 /obsd > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5.8M Nov 25 14:16 /bsd.rd > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 1.2M Dec 7 15:05 /sbin/isakmpd > > -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 526K Dec 7 15:06 /etc/magic > > > > r...@sgate:/root# find / -xdev -mtime -1 -type f | xargs ls -laSh > > -rw------- 1 root wheel 2.0K Dec 18 03:09 /etc/pf.conf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 507B Dec 18 03:08 /etc/hosts > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0B Dec 18 02:49 /etc/resolv.conf > > > The other strange thing is that I`ve set up the /etc/daily root backup > > and here is the compare between two discs: > > > > /dev/wd1d 1005M 42.2M 912M 4% /altroot > > /dev/wd0a 1005M 251M 704M 26% / > > > > since /altroot is exact dd copy of / isn`t they at the same size? > > It's quite possible that some process is holding open a file descriptor > to a file which has no links from the filesystem. To see this, run 'vi > bigfile', suspend, and run 'rm bigfile'. The space is still used. Then > quit vi, and optionally run 'sync', and you'll see the space has been > reclaimed. > > To see which process is the culprit, try fstat. > > (Note that this is only one possibility!) > > Joachim

