Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Please pardon my newbie-ness on this issue....I've a / partition which is >> full (quite suddenly, actually) and I'm not sure how to fix this. >> >> I've searched for uneeded logs, etc in /var/log and /tmp to no avail. The >> system is CentOS 5.2 and is not connected to the internet, serves as a local >> LAN server running stock stuff...sendmail, dovecot, apache..nothing strange >> or special going on. >> >> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would >> appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to >> where the space is being eaten up. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> -Ray >> <snip> > Do a search for coredump file (i.e. run updatedb && locate core.*) - > they can often fill up the HDD very quicly if something coredumps. > > > Thanks, Rudi...I hadn't thought of that. The results, however, weren't overly helpful for this issue in this case. I had about 11M of core dumps from March in the samba/cores directory The big deal here is that the system is choking...any advice on finding what's making it choke and/or relieving the strain on / would be appreciated. Again, my thanks, -Ray