Hi,
Earlier today I sent out the request for help that's shown below. I
received plenty of responses and thanks to:
Michael Matthews
Stephen LaBelle
Becki Kain
Thomas Leitner
Jeffrey G. Micono
Alan Oborne
Berry Kercheval
Ron Babcock
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Chan Cao
Martin Moore
Lucio Chiappetti
Paul A. Sand
Mervyn Weis
Robert Otterson
Dr. Tom Blinn
Phil Farrell
Steve VanDevender
Oisin McGuinness
Yaacov Fenster
Sean McInerney
Donald Rye
John Becker
Pam Woods
There are three answers:
1) The /proc directory and its contents do not use any disk space since it
pertains to memory.
2) Even if the /proc files used any disk space, they would overload the
/proc filesystems rather than the root filesystem since /proc is it's own
mount point. That is obvious and I was in a hurry for a solution so I
overlooked that.
3) The space hogging culprit is somewhere in the root file system (I knew
that, just assumed /proc was part of the root file system which it's not
since it has it's own mount point). The main suggestions were to look in
the /tmp and /dev subdirectories.
When I looked in my /tmp directory, I found huge files that were indeed the
cause of the / filesystem overload so I deleted them and all is well.
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I run DEC unix V4.0B on a DEC alpha server 1000. As indicated below, my
root file system is overloaded:
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/re0a 127134 126798 0 111% /
/proc 0 0 0 100% /proc
/dev/re0g 3605822 742398 2502840 23% /usr
/dev/re1g 24003988 2913572 18690016 14% /raid
The reason my root file system is overloaded is because of the presence of
the files below which recently invaded my /proc directory:
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 16416 Jan 7 09:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root system 1024 Dec 29 13:09 ../
-rw------- 1 root system 544849920 Jan 7 09:10 00000
-rw------- 1 root system 8634368 Jan 7 09:10 00001
-rw------- 1 root system 9109504 Jan 7 09:10 00003
-rw------- 1 root system 17121280 Jan 7 09:10 00021
-rw------- 1 root system 17154048 Jan 7 09:10 00088
-rw------- 1 root system 17137664 Jan 7 09:10 00090
-rw------- 1 root system 21561344 Jan 7 09:10 00230
-rw------- 1 root system 17137664 Jan 7 09:10 00263
-rw------- 1 root system 17121280 Jan 7 09:10 00265
-rw------- 1 root system 17276928 Jan 7 09:10 00319
-rw------- 1 root system 17170432 Jan 7 09:10 00364
-rw------- 1 root system 17170432 Jan 7 09:10 00368
-rw------- 1 root system 25640960 Jan 7 09:10 00372
-rw------- 1 root system 17129472 Jan 7 09:10 00400
-rw------- 1 root system 17186816 Jan 7 09:10 00417
-rw------- 1 root system 17186816 Jan 7 09:10 00427
-rw------- 1 root system 17440768 Jan 7 09:10 00440
-rw------- 1 root system 8642560 Jan 7 09:10 00448
-rw------- 1 root system 36929536 Jan 7 09:10 00449
-rw------- 1 root system 34537472 Jan 7 09:10 00507
-rw------- 1 root daemon 36225024 Jan 7 09:10 05096
-rw------- 1 root daemon 44761088 Jan 7 09:10 05472
-rw------- 1 root daemon 17522688 Jan 7 09:10 05539
-rw------- 1 root daemon 17154048 Jan 7 09:10 05544
-rw------- 1 root daemon 44515328 Jan 7 09:10 06226
-rw------- 1 root daemon 45424640 Jan 7 09:10 06230
-rw------- 1 root system 17440768 Jan 7 09:10 08096
-rw------- 1 root system 43458560 Jan 7 09:10 08108
-rw------- 1 root system 17858560 Jan 7 09:10 08110
-rw------- 1 root daemon 17276928 Jan 7 09:10 10727
-rw------- 1 tholmes system 17522688 Jan 7 09:10 10731
-rw------- 1 root system 17170432 Jan 7 09:10 10735
-rw------- 1 root daemon 17457152 Jan 7 09:10 10810
-rw------- 1 root daemon 17383424 Jan 7 09:10 10814
How do I remove the files above? There must be an indirect way because the
direct "rm" and "chmod" commands won't work on these files though I've
tried as root.
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|Tully Holmes, MIS Systems Analyst |
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|tholmes_at_antelope.wcc.edu |
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Received on Wed Jan 07 1998 - 22:39:03 NZDT