I have a Centos 7 install that seems to be filling up disk space to 100% on the root partition. in /tmp I found files of names... systemd-private-XXXXXXXX-colord and rtkit I have never seen these files before. there were also files of XXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp in the /tmp folder. Why are these files appearing? I have a number of installs and never came across this before. Thanks, Jerry
This is a listing. total 44 drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:37 lu27063gukci0.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:43 lu3205guot5q.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:48 lu4177guts1n.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-colord.service-B3EzVm drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-rtkit-daemon.service-Z5MlFp drwx------ 2 root root 6 Mar 1 2016 tracker-extract-files.1000 Its the XXXXXXX.tmp directory that seem to be filling up... They have .tmp files in the directory. or the tracker-extract-files is also an unknown. What is that? how do I stop it ? Jerry On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:> I have a Centos 7 install that seems to be filling up disk space to 100% > on the root partition. > > in /tmp I found files of names... > systemd-private-XXXXXXXX-colord and rtkit > I have never seen these files before. > > there were also files of XXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp in the /tmp folder. > > Why are these files appearing? I have a number of installs and never came > across this before. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > >
It looks like its these files: drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 16:11 lu10398gvo2au.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 16:14 lu3245gvrkvp.tmp drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 16:14 lu4298gvwjcr.tmp That just keep growing and "many" files in each directory. Over time it fills the / root partition. What is making those files ? How do I stop it? jerry On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:> This is a listing. > > total 44 > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:37 lu27063gukci0.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:43 lu3205guot5q.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:48 lu4177guts1n.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n > drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 systemd-private- > e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-colord.service-B3EzVm > drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 systemd-private- > e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-rtkit-daemon.service-Z5MlFp > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Mar 1 2016 tracker-extract-files.1000 > > > Its the XXXXXXX.tmp directory that seem to be filling up... They have .tmp > files in the directory. > > or the tracker-extract-files is also an unknown. > > What is that? how do I stop it ? > > Jerry > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a Centos 7 install that seems to be filling up disk space to 100% >> on the root partition. >> >> in /tmp I found files of names... >> systemd-private-XXXXXXXX-colord and rtkit >> I have never seen these files before. >> >> there were also files of XXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp in the /tmp folder. >> >> Why are these files appearing? I have a number of installs and never came >> across this before. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerry >> >> >
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 16:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> This is a listing. > > total 44 > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 lu26465gujqup.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:37 lu27063gukci0.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:43 lu3205guot5q.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Aug 17 15:48 lu4177guts1n.tmp > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Aug 17 15:36 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n > drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 > systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-colord.service-B3EzVm > drwx------ 3 root root 16 Aug 17 15:39 > systemd-private-e02ca338bba64326ab00789706c3de4b-rtkit-daemon.service-Z5MlFp > drwx------ 2 root root 6 Mar 1 2016 tracker-extract-files.1000 > > > Its the XXXXXXX.tmp directory that seem to be filling up... They have .tmp > files in the directory. > > or the tracker-extract-files is also an unknown. > > What is that? how do I stop it ? >It's where tracker extracts files. Google for "centos7 tracker disable" I suspect the lu*.tmp directories are from when tracker uses LO to extract and index documents. If you don't use, or want to use, tracker, then disable tracker. P.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 03:49:19PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:> in /tmp I found files of names... > systemd-private-XXXXXXXX-colord and rtkit > I have never seen these files before.Unrelated to the disk space issues, but the systemd-private-* directories are created by systemd services that have PrivateTmp turned on. THose services run with a private /tmp namespace, so they can't see the rest of the OS's /tmp. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>