OK! Found the problem. This list rocks by the way... I had so many responses that it would take a whole disk just to list them...
Most people recommended doing several variants of find and du, to locate large files and/or files that had been changed in the last 24 hours or so.
Also most people recommended installing lsof to see if there was something hanging out there munging space.
The problem turned out to be an application that automatically writes a backup copy of its data files in the background. I had thought it was writing these files somewhere else, but it turns out to be writing them in an obscurely deep location right off the root itself. So, eventually I located these files and cleaned out as appropriate....root popped back down to about 45%.
Here is my original post:
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Hi - I'm new to this game, so I apologize if this is a low-level question:
I have inherited an Alpha 2100 running DU4.0e. Everything has been going
fine, but today I tried to make a password change for a user and I got a
file "system full" error message.
Well, it wasn't lying! Root partition is running at 111%. This is on a 128MB
partition, and up suddenly from about 60%. I've deleted as much extra stuff
as I feel OK about.
Obviously something popped up and is eating space. All of the obvious
culprits (mail, logs, etc.) seem to be living on other disks. What is the
best way to find out what is chomping through the system??
Again, thanks for indulging a newguy.
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Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 17:00:45 NZST