Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:40:14PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet.
>
> Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my
> hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the
> partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.)
>
> This has happened twice now. The first time was after I went to bed
> last night. When I got up this morning, the drive was full. Then, it
> happened again while we were out doing Christmas dinner and movies. We
> left around 11:30 this morning, and when we returned just about a half
> hour ago, it was full again. Both times, I was able to clear it by
> logging out and back in again.
>
> I'm suspecting that the culprit is ipmasq. I noticed that when I'm
> logged in to any text console, I occasionally get various firewall
> status lines, such as:
>
> IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=68.113.22.3 DST=68.111.54.95 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00
> TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SP
>
That is going into your /var/log/(syslog|messages|kern.log).
du --max-depth=0 on /var/log and on /tmp or du --max-depth=1 on / to
see where the data is hiding. Since it clears when you log out
(reboot?) its probably a temp file. If only logout then I would guess
something related to you window manager or session.
> I'm guessing that this stuff is also going into some sort of temporary
> log file, which gets rather full after a few hours. What can I do to
> stop this? At the very least, I would like to set things up so ipmasq
> either creates no log file, or limits the size of the file to something
> reasonable. I'd also like to set it so those messages don't come up on
> the screen as well, as it gets rather annoying when I'm working from a
> console.
>
>
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