The only thing I know that will give you a instant snapshot of what's happening is "mtop". It shows you whayt apps are using your harddrive very similar to top with processes. David On 4/9/09, JCARRIZOSA at crutchfield.com <JCARRIZOSA at crutchfield.com> 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 /. > > 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 >