I received many suggestions to download and install LSOF which I did. I
used it to generate a list of processes that had open files in the /usr
partition with no attached links. One of the processes was an application
that runs all the time and had been recently modified. I killed that
application and the /usr partition stopped filling up. Success! The
application turned out to be writting A LOT of messeges to stdout and was
running as a background process. This was filling up the /usr partition. I
still have to investigate why this was causing the /usr partition to fill.
I received 20 responses to my question, many containing excellent
information about df and du. Thank you all for your help.
Original Question:
This is a follow up question now that I understand the problem better.
du -k /usr is holding steady at 766947
df -k /usr shows "Used" at 1039390 and getting larger at around 17M an hour.
This is a 4G partition so we will fill up in around 7.5 days. How can I
troubleshoot what is chipping away at our partition?
Thanks again
mark.myszkowski_at_wepco.com
Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 17:44:45 NZDT