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