Re: root file system
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Art Edwards wrote:
> I'm noticing that my root file system has filled up. I'm having a very
> hard time trying to find out what is growing. Has anybody had the same
> thing happen? I'm running potato (kernel 2.2.17) on both an athalon and
> a pentium III machine (both are exhibiting the same engorgement.)
>
> BTW, what is the file kcore? It seems to be very big.
When was the last time you rebooted? How often do you upgrade?
The reason I ask, is that there could still be daemons running, that are using
old libraries. These libraries have been deleted from disk, but because a
program is still using them, the kernel hasn't actually removed them from
disk, but just the reference to them. You'll see this when you run a du, and
it'll be smaller than what df tells you.
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