Thanks to everyone who replied.
Most people suspected /usr/var areas - most of it was actually happening
in /usr/var/tmp where a vi session that was editing a large file was
creating a temp copy there...
but something is still growing but much slower.
anyways I did remember the find command much similar to the one steve
mentions below:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Steve VanDevender wrote:
>
> > Pam Woods, Systems Manager writes:
> > > This morning my /usr was at 95% with about 100,000 free, now it's
> > > down to 76000...
> > > how can I find out what/who is chewing my diskspace up?
> >
> > If there's a file that's being written to frequently, then you can
> > probably find it among:
> >
> > find /usr -xdev -mtime -1 -ls
> >
> > This shows all files modified within the last day.
> >
>
> which is probably much shorter than du would be in a dump.
>
> Thanks for the speedy replies!
> ________
> Pam Woods - axsymgr_at_uaa.alaska.edu
Received on Fri Aug 01 1997 - 01:30:32 NZST