At Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:51:42 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > I have a CentOS 5.2 box that every few months runs out of drivespace on > its root filesystem. Last time I manually searched and deleted some big > files, but don't remember what they were or what wrote to them. The > applications I'm aware of on the box don't write to /. You have /var and/or /tmp on separate filesystems? If not, that is where things are being written to. Specificly, look in /tmp, /var/log/, and under /var/spool. Is /var/tmp separate from /tmp? What about /usr/tmp? If you don't run the machine 24/7, logrotate might not be run, this would mean your log files (under /var/log) will grow and grow and grow ... If you don't have an email alias for root (I assume you don't login as root!), then /var/spool/mail/root will grow and grow and grow ... as well (all sorts of silly messages sent to root). It is also possible that stuff is accumulating under /var/spool/lpd as well, although this will be small files. > > Is there a way to find the files that get written to the most, or grow > the most over time? Doing a df gives me a snapshot, but it seems clunky > to keep track of the diff on that output over time. I can then see what > processes write to them. Any other ideas on how to investigate this are > welcome. > > Thanks much. > > Jorge > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/