on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:06:16PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
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> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
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> >
> > Try the following on each of your mounted partitions, starting at the
> > mount point:
> >
> > $ du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n | less
> >
> > ...which will list out your largest directories, with usage sumarized,
> > in size order. Track down where the storage seems to be going.
> >
>
> Thanks a lot. Following your indication I was able to determine what the
> problem was: About 2 weeks ago I had changed my /etc/ppp/options file,
> uncommenting debug and writting kdebug 7 (!!!)
> So, du -sx etcetera took me right away to
> /var/log, where I found
> syslog 685016
> debug 684696
> kern.log 684592
>
> rm them, rebooted and got back 2 gigs of space!
^^^^^^^^
Not necessary.
Rather:
$ fuser -v bigfile # show process(es) using bigfile
$ fuser -vk bigfile # kill process(es) using bigfile
$ fuser -v bigfile # verify the kill worked
$ cat /dev/null > bigfile # "empty" the file
$ rm bigfile
In general, you want to *empty* a file (cat /dev/null > file) before you
delete it, and you don't want to delete an open file.
> Lesson: BE very carefull implementing kdebug level 7 in /etc/ppp/options
You might also want to look at logrotate's options, which should manage
this for you.
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