[Sussex] Fedora Core 5 - lossing disk space

Neil Hart neil.m.hart at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 30 12:09:30 UTC 2007


Hi Brendan,

Growing log files maybe?

Have a look at what's happening in /var/log/

Neil

On 30/01/07, Brendan Whelan <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk> wrote:
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> I have a server hosted at an ISP where the 36GB disk was full which resulted
> in the MySQL database stopping. I cleared some space rebuilt the damaged
> tables so the MySQL is working. However, it would appear that something is
> writing to the disk as issuing a "df" every few seconds show that the free
> space is gradually reducing. There are no cron jobs and no application
> daemons so I doubt that it is one of my programs.
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> Any suggestions on how I can find what is taking the space?
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> Thanks,
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