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Re: Searching for process filling root FS.



On 5/20/2013 12:06 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:

> I watch carefully disk space on my root device i try to find the
> culprit that fills the space.
> 
> For example, i have free space only 100 MiB. 

If you only have 100MiB free space in your root filesystem, that is
normally a bad situation.

> After 2-3 hours space is
> gone. After reboot i see the space again.

What daemons are running?  What applications are you running?  Desktop
or server workload?

> What i did is "du -ms" for every dir. on the disk only (not
> for /dev, /sys, ...) - before i have the space and after it vanished
> away.

Temp files of some kind?

> The interesting point is that though total free disk spaces are
> different for the amount of MiB, yet every dir. size is the same or 2-3
> of it differs no more that 1 MiB.
> 
> So question is, how it may be? Is it so large calculations drift ?

What filesystem is this?

-- 
Stan


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