In article <49DE80CC.4040004 at gmail.com>, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > find / -mount -ctime -1 #files that changed today ITYM -mtime Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org