Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-06 Thread Stephen Stafford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 March 2001 9:35 am, Matthias Wieser wrote: 2Q: In what package can I find fuser? psmisc in What package can I find lsof? lsof-2.2 HTH ('apt-cache search commandname' generally will give you some hints as to which packages

/ is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread jdls
Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage somehow goes down...it doesn't..du doesn't show anything

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jd... whats teh rest of your partitions looking like ?? post the results of df use du and see if you see anything odd du /root du /lib du /proc du /boot du /dev du /etc du / all the root stuff ... du /home is

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
jdls wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check if the usage somehow goes down...it doesn't..du

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:15:00AM -0800, jdls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's almost nothing there...df shows its 100% but I am sure it's not...I tried to move and even delete, uninstall some files, applications to check

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
2Q: In what package can I find fuser? in What package can I find lsof? Thank you - mattHias /** *Hiaslboy* * alias Matthias Wieser * *Kreuzgasse 20/15* * A

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Martin Fluch
Try as root: find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -s | sort -nr | less And you will see all files sorted by size (in blocks, bigest first) on your root partition... Martin On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, jdls wrote: Greetings, My root filesystem suddenly shows 100% usage even though there's

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: Isn't that a flaw in the system then? I can understand if a process still has the file

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them: Isn't that a flaw in the system then? No, it's a

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: ... kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops using it. If you rm the file first, you won't know which process is keeping the disk space

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Brian May
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: kmself Not strictly. You can track things down through lsof or kmself the /proc filesystem, but it's hard to work out what files kmself are then accounting for large amounts of disk utilization. kmself In other words -- it's a hell

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:35:06AM +0100, Matthias Wieser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2Q: In what package can I find fuser? in What package can I find lsof? $ apt-cache search lsof lsof-2.2 - List open files. lsof-2.0.36 - List open files. $ apt-cache search fuser psmisc

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:27:04PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:44AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: ... kmself's point is that the file isn't deleted until the process stops using it. If you rm