Re: Diagnostic advice: How to find; what filled up a 27% of 13.3 Gb drive overnite!
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@snowcrest.net>, 2001-04-13 11:34 +0200:
> On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:13, John Foster wrote:
> > I am running a mixed testing/unstable system and after my last upgrade I
> > have 2 new problems. My test system is on a 13.3 Gb drive and I have
> > been at 63% full for about a year. I was downloading some mail and got a
> > disk full error. I had NEVER seen this before on any of my Linux
> > systems. I checked and sure enough the disk is showing 100% full. I
> > moved a bunch of old archives (about 7%) off it and left it sit for a
> > day. When I came back it was completely full again. Any ideas on how to
> > locate the problem. I have NO Clue.
> > Thanks!
> > John
> I would start looking at /tmp, then migrate to /var/log then, and this is
> totally off the wall, in ~/.kde . . . Friend of mine just released nearly 2GB
> of room in a file called something like ~/.kde/dev_null . . . We still don't
> know how/what the deal was . . .
[rearranged quoting order]
We had a disk filled with cron generated messages to root, never
delivered from /var/spool/mail/
Andre Berger [andre.berger@topmail.de]
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