Re: home directory full now

Subject: Re: home directory full now
From: Norman E. Brake, Jr. (nebrake@austin.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 14:00:22 MDT

Several good suggestions here. Let me add another.

"du /home"
   Should show how much space is used by each directory in
the /home tree.
   Look for a big one.

"ls -lSr"
   In that big directory found above, list the files, sorted
by size with
   small ones first. thus the big ones will be at the end
of the list.

"ls -ltr"
   If it is many small files rather than few large ones,
this command
   will list files sorted by modification time with oldest
ones first
   and, thus, the newest ones will be at the end of the
list.

Knowing what files are being created may help in determining
what is
creating them. 

-- 
Norm Brake
IBM AIX Kernel Development

Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> 
> This sounds like some run-away process to me:
> Some process starts up, gets an error, terminates (and core dumps maybe) and
> restarts. Check:
> /etc/inittab - to see what you are starting up
> /var/log/*  - to see which of the log files is getting very very very big
> /etc/rc.d/<directories> - to see what gets started at system startup.
> 
> also, do a ps -ef|more to see which process is running.
> then do it again to see which process is not running any more and which new
> process[es] is[are] running now.
> 
> Contact me if you have problems.
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David C. Hacker, DVM" <dh55145@alltel.net>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: home directory full now
> 
> > I am not using ethernet just modem.  Everything was fine when I
> disconnected
> > from the internet last night.  Then when I got up this morning the disk
> > drive was humming like crazy and the home directory was full.  I rebooted
> > and it was back to normal then a few minutes later it was full again  Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > --
> > David C. Hacker, DVM
> > 923 B St #32
> > Schuyler, NE 68661
> >
> > > From: Ben Trumbull <trumbull@mac.com>
> > > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:14:46 -0700
> > > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > > Subject: Re: home directory full now
> > >
> > >> I woke up this morning and my home directory was completely full it is
> on an
> > >> 800 MB partition and it had 650 MB free last night.  The hard drive was
> > >> churning away and I couldn't do anything because the partition was
> full.  Any
> > >> ideas what file might have taken up all the space?
> > >
> > > Pull out the ethernet cable.  Examine your system logs.  See if
> > > anyone thoughtfully left stuff in any ftp accessible directories, etc.
> > >
> > > If you got hacked, seriously consider formatting all the drives and
> > > reinstalling from CD.
> > >
> > > If not, think about what you've been doing lately.  Did someone email
> > > you an image file of a CD ? etc.
> > >
> > > -Ben
> >
> >
> 
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