A friend's machine just had his / partition goto zero percent free. This is an ext3 partition. Not an hour ago he had over 5 gigs free on an 8 gig partition. Any ideas where to look? The logs don't show anything unusual. -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, William Warren wrote:> A friend's machine just had his / partition goto zero percent free. > This is an ext3 partition. Not an hour ago he had over 5 gigs free on > an 8 gig partition. Any ideas where to look? The logs don't show > anything unusual.find / -size +10M | xargs ls -l > big.files Adjust as needed. start from / to catch log files, etc in the 'wrong' place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:42 -0500, William Warren wrote:> A friend's machine just had his / partition goto zero percent free. > This is an ext3 partition. Not an hour ago he had over 5 gigs free on > an 8 gig partition. Any ideas where to look? The logs don't show > anything unusual.Hummmm, sounds like something that happened to me when I first tried to install software raid and had no clue what I was doing...it loaded up the hard drives like that...mount points etc I think... but it's an outside shot of where the problem might be. something might be misconfigured john rose -- ...you ever notice the look on your neighbors face when you start talking about linux?