Running this command will help you find your largest files. Might help find the culprit:
sudo du / | sort -nr | top -20 Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 02:08, nbl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all ! > > Since a few days my root partition is continuously filling up to 100%. > > I found no file that could account for such a disk usage and when I > reboot the computer disk space come back to normal (~60% used) and > fill up again in a few time. > > I ran this command : > iotop -a --user root > > And I noticed two crazy processes : > 357 be/4 root 372.00 K 4.59 G ?unavailable? > [flush-8:0] > 360 be/3 root 0.00 B 1625.69 M ?unavailable? [jbd2/ > sda5-8] > > These two processes wrote several gigabytes in less than a half of an > hour on the root partition. > > I use Ubuntu Lucid with latest kernel 2.6.32-34-generic, coming back > to 2.6.32-33 didn't solve the problem. The root partition is formatted > in ext4. > > Do somebody have an idea ? > > Thanks ! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
